Nick Maxwell WILLIAM JENKINS McGill/Queen’s University Press $99CAD ISBN 9780773550469 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. One was dubbed the ‘Belfast of Canada’, the other the ‘Queen City of the Lakes’. Toronto, capital of the Canadian province of Ontario and bordering the Great Lake of … Read more
BRENDAN SMITH (ed.) Cambridge University Press £100 ISBN 9781107110670 Reviewed by Seán Duffy When Oxford University Press’s nine-volume New History of Ireland was announced in 1968, few can have imagined that it would take 37 years to bring it to completion, though in most respects it was worth the wait: in its day, it merited … Read more
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Richard Stanihurst (1547–1618): Dublin’s earliest historian, Colm Lennon.
Fri–Sat Irish Labour History Society Conference: William Walker of Belfast. 6pm Fri @ Mac Centre: William Walker, Michael Mecham. 11am Sat @ John Hewitt Bar: launch of biography followed by discussion on Walker’s Belfast; 2pm: Walker’s relevance today.
Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Lt. Edward Hempenstall, the ‘Walking Gallows’ of 1798, in Wicklow lore, Séan A. Murphy. Adm. €3.