Nick Maxwell By Joe Cully Michael Christopher Keane, From Laois to Kerry (M.C. Keane, €20 pb, 130pp, ISBN 9780992698867). Michael English, The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin (Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press, €24.95 pb, 278pp, ISBN 9781907002298). Peter O’Keeffe, Tom Simington and Rob Goodbody, Irish stone bridges: history and heritage (Dublin City Council/Irish Academic Press, €35.99 hb, 370pp, ISBN … Read more
By William Derham In 1801, after the Act of Union, the bishop of Meath, Thomas Lewis O’Beirne (1749–1823), wrote to the chief secretary at Dublin Castle, Charles Abbot (1757–1829), suggesting ways in which the viceroy might consolidate the status of his office, advocating that he ‘publicly support the church and give a good example in … Read more
ADRIAN FRAZIER €20 Lilliput Press ISBN 9781843516781 Reviewed by: Anthony J. Jordan Anthony J. Jordan’s books on the Yeats/Gonne/MacBride triangle are now available on Kindle. This is a most interesting book by an author who is not in thrall to any of the main participants/protagonists, though he does jib at Maud Gonne’s use of the … Read more
STEPHEN KELLY Merrion Press €24.95 ISBN 9781785370977 Reviewed by: Martin Mansergh While many books have been written about Charles Haughey by journalists, this is the first academic study focused on his Northern Ireland policy and that draws on archival sources available until the mid-1980s. For that reason alone it will be widely consulted. It is … Read more
JANE GRAY, RUTH GERAGHTY and DAVID RALPH Manchester University Press £16.99 ISBN 9780719091520 Reviewed by: Mary Corcoran Mary Corcoran is Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. What a joy to review a sociological work that is empirically rich and theoretically driven while avoiding a retreat into the obtuse and the arcane. Family rhythms: the changing … Read more