PETER CROOKS and THOMAS MOHR (eds) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846827402 Reviewed by James Meighan James Meighan is a solicitor and a Ph.D candidate at the University of Limerick. The editors open this book with a reference to the address of President Michael D. Higgins to the joint houses of parliament in Westminster in … Read more
Vol. 2 (of 3), 1 February 1649–12 December 1653 ELAINE MURPHY, MICHEÁL Ó SIOCHRÚ and JASON PEACEY (eds) Oxford University Press £190 per volume, £570 for the set of three ISBN 9780199587896 Reviewed by Jane Ohlmeyer Oliver Cromwell’s statue enjoys pride of place outside the House of Commons at Westminster in London. In 2002 the … Read more
Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Like most of us, I suspect, you think of the Irish Sea as ‘ours’. After all, it’s named for us. We happily, unconsciously, ignore the fact that Wales (never mind England) has a coastline nearly as long as ours dipping beneath it and that the Welsh might indulge some proprietary claim to … Read more
MARY KENNY Columba Books €19.99 ISBN 9781782183860 Reviewed by Sarah-Anne Buckley Sarah-Anne Buckley lectures in history at the University of Galway. Mary Kenny states that the focus of her most recent book, The way we were, is twofold. Part 1 examines ‘the context of history’ and Catholic Ireland since 1922. Part 2 explores the ‘men … Read more
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