Nick Maxwell JOHN CROWLEY, DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL and MIKE MURPHY (eds), and JOHN BORGONOVO (assoc. ed.) Cork University Press €59 ISBN 9781782051176 Reviewed by Matthew Stout We each, in our own way, commemorated the centenary of the Easter Rising last year. Because of family connections, Easter Monday morning found this reviewer outside the town of Ashbourne at … Read more
SUSAN GALAVAN Routledge £95 ISBN 9781472471727 Reviewed by Ellen Rowley Ellen Rowley lectures in the School of Architecture, University College Dublin. Dublin’s bourgeoishomes by architect-turned-historian Susan Galavan manages to bring something new and important to the already packed bookshelves on Dublin history. Because architecture, and specifically the more everyday architecture of housing, is the language … Read more
TOBY BARNARD Four Courts Press €50 ISBN 9781846826290 Reviewed by Eamon Darcy Eamon Darcy lectures in history at Maynooth University and is the author of The world of Thomas Ward: sex and scandal in late seventeenth-century Co. Antrim. The purpose of this volume is to investigate how Irish people encountered and engaged with the world … Read more
Charles O’Conor, a Catholic antiquarian in County Roscommon, saw the potential of print to disseminate a more accurate and flattering view of Ireland and thereby to swing opinion, in Britain and continental Europe, towards a relaxation of the notorious penal laws. He was probably unequalled in his competence to decipher and interpret Gaelic manuscripts. At … Read more
JOSEPH E.A. CONNELL Jr Wordwell Books €19 ISBN 9780993351884 Reviewed by Lorcan Collins Lorcan Collins is the author of 1916: the Rising handbook (O’Brien Press, 2016). Joe Connell, a regular contributor to History Ireland, is responsible for collecting and publishing an enormous database of addresses associated with the revolutionary period 1916–23. His encyclopaedic knowledge and … Read more