Nick Maxwell THOMAS KENEALLY Faber & Faber €17.50 ISBN 9780571387960 REVIEWED BY Frank MacGabhann Frank MacGabhann is a retired lawyer currently researching the Catalpa rescue of Fenian prisoners in 1876. The late Gore Vidal maintained that one can learn more, sometimes far more, about a historical period or personage from a historical novel than from many historians. … Read more
SUSAN ARTHURE, STEPHANIE JAMES, DYMPHNA LONERGAN and FIDELMA McCORRY (eds) Wakefield Press AU$45.00 ISBN 9781923042339 REVIEWED BY Elizabeth Malcolm Elizabeth Malcolm’s most recent article, with Val Noone and Dianne Hall, is ‘Irish women in Australia and Irish-Australian women: a survey and bibliography’ (2022), available at: https://isaanz.org. This collection of studies devoted to the Irish in … Read more
HOWARD CLARKE and MÁIRE NÍ LAOI Royal Irish Academy €50 ISBN 9781802050028 REVIEWED BY Fintan Lane Fintan Lane is a historian with an interest in the social history of nineteenth-century Ireland. Since its beginning in 1986, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) series, published by the Royal Irish Academy, has documented the topographical development of … Read more
PETER BROWN Princeton University Press £38 9780691242286 REVIEWED BY Thomas O’Loughlin I cannot think of any book comparable to this, and so, while reading it was an immense pleasure, writing this review is rather difficult. There are at least three possible starting-points and I cannot choose between them: Peter Brown in writing an autobiography has … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald Trinity College students made history in May when their encampment achieved their demands for the university to divest from blacklisted Israeli companies, and the latest Trinity Journal of Histories shows that they are just as adept at writing history. This volume features essays on topics as diverse as the role of Japanese … Read more