Nick Maxwell BY TONY CANAVAN War in a border county Monaghan County Museum has opened a new exhibition on the county’s role in the War of Independence. The museum’s own War of Independence files include more than 500 pages of firsthand accounts from Monaghan IRA veterans, which were gathered in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of … Read more
COLUM KENNY Irish Academic Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785373145 Reviewed by Owen McGee Owen McGee is the author of A history of Ireland in international relations (Irish Academic Press, 2020). Rather than taking the form of a biography, this concise and stylish new assessment of Griffith focuses on particular episodes or themes to assess his significance. … Read more
STEPHEN PULEO St Martin’s Press $28.99 ISBN 9781250200471 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of Empire of deception and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a perilous voyage—a run from Boston to Ireland in April, perhaps the stormiest month to be crossing the … Read more
ROLF LOEBER (edited by Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846828201 Reviewed by Arnold Horner The late Rolf Loeber (1942–2017) worked for over 50 years on topics related to Irish architecture and to Irish social history and literature, broadly interpreted. Born in the Netherlands and for most of his life based … Read more
Sir,—The recent article ‘Irish Eyewitness to Bull Run 1861’ (HI 28.1, Jan./Feb. 2020) coincides with a discovery of a hitherto unknown connection between my family and the American Civil War. In December 1861 a young Irishman named Edward Ging volunteered to join the Union Army, C Twelfth, New York Volunteers. Born in County Offaly in … Read more