Nick Maxwell

FRANK BARRY Oxford University Press £70 ISBN 9780198878230 REVIEWED BY Colm Keena Colm Keena is a journalist with the Irish Times. A late friend of mine who attended a Church of Ireland school used to tell of going for a job interview with Guardian Royal Exchange in Dublin in the late 1960s and not giving … Read more

DARRAGH GANNON Cambridge University Press €98 ISBN 9781009158299 REVIEWED BY Charles Townshend Charles Townshend is Professor Emeritus of International History at Keele University. The Irish in twentieth-century Britain have attracted plenty of attention from historians and are now being subjected to ever-closer scrutiny; in recent years a series of studies have appeared—foremost amongst them, perhaps, Mo … Read more

PATRICK W. HAYES Boydell and Brewer £90 ISBN 9781783277063 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environmental history of pre-modern Ireland. This very welcome study by Patrick Hayes adds to this growing body of research. The … Read more

WILLIAM NOLAN Geography Publications €120 ISBN 9780906602997 YOUNG IRELAND: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHRISTOPHER MORASH New York University Press $35 ISBN 9781479822218 REVIEWED BY Peter Gray The Young Irelanders, that pioneering group of writers, thinkers and activists who did so much to shape modern Irish nationalism, had a relatively brief period of collective existence, book-ended by … Read more

By Daragh Fitzgerald The Coleraine Historical Society is celebrating its 40th anniversary this March, and to mark the occasion a ruby type is used on the front cover of the latest volume of their journal, The Bann Disc. This diverse collection of essays concerning all things Coleraine (and its environs) contains something of interest for … Read more