Nick Maxwell CONOR CURRAN Four Courts Press €31.50 ISBN 9781801510394 Reviewed by Brian Trench Brian Trench is a former senior lecturer at the School of Communications, Dublin City University, and former media officer at Bohemian Football Club. A century ago Dublin was emerging as a football capital, home to the newly formed Football Association of the Irish … Read more
DONAL FALLON New Island Books €15.95 ISBN 9781848408722 Reviewed by Evan Comerford Evan Comerford is a civil servant with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Donal Fallon provides a fresh and engaging take on Dublin’s social history with a trip through the streets, broad and narrow, of the capital city in Three castles … Read more
ELIZABETH BORAN, E. CHARLES NELSON and EMER LAWLOR (eds) Four Courts Press for the Trustees of the Edward Worth Library €50 ISBN 9781946820233 Reviewed by Mary Davies Mary Davies is the co-author (with Patricia Butler) of Wicklow through the artist’s eye: an exploration of County Wicklow’s historic gardens, c. 1660–1960 (Wordwell Books, 2014). The Edward … Read more
TONY GAYNOR Four Courts Press €54 ISBN 9781801510370 Reviewed by Daniel Ayiotis I’ll start this review with my only criticism, to get it out of the way: the title of this book undersells it. When this nearly 400-page tome arrived in the post, I anticipated a chronological trudge through biographies of the 36 commanders who … Read more
Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Everything you know about the siege of Derry is wrong. For instance, it’s not entirely clear whether there were any apprentice boys at all. Yes, there were a handful of youths who initially shut the gates, some of whom might have been apprenticed at the time—but maybe not. They had, however, been … Read more