Nick Maxwell PEADAR SLATTERY Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846 827907 Reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies Henry A. Jefferies is a Research Associate in History at Ulster University. This is a rare book, an academic study that will certainly appeal to a popular readership. In remarkable detail, Dr Slattery describes what life was actually like for the … Read more
Colmán Etchingham, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (eds) Brepols €65 ISBN 9782503579023 Reviewed by Seán Duffy Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College Dublin. This is a book by academics for academics. Also, the indefinite article in the title matters. If we take the … Read more
IAN D’ALTON and IDA MILNE (eds) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782052982 Reviewed by Raymond Refaussé Raymond Refaussé was Librarian and Archivist of the Church of Ireland until his retirement in 2016. There can be little doubt that since the Reformation the issue of identity has been a major preoccupation for Irish Protestants. This has … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Anyone who has spent time in Galway will be familiar with the ‘pictorial map’ of the early modern town, a ‘bird’s-eye’ illustration detailing with remarkable accuracy the street layout and the significant buildings and landmarks of the time. A print of the map is framed on the walls of nearly every … Read more
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks (until May 2020) By Brandi Goddard In this striking exhibition, Alison Lowry, a Northern Irish artist, explores issues of gender, institutional abuse and domestic violence through the medium of glass objects and video. Lowry is clearly inspired and enraged by Ireland’s history of Magdalene laundries, industrial schools and mother-and-baby … Read more