Marie Coleman (Irish Academic Press, E45) ISBN 0716527030 The War of Independence, 1919–21, was anything but a ‘national’ revolt; the areas of activity were in Munster (principally Cork and Tipperary), Dublin and, most interestingly, the small midlands county of Longford. Marie Coleman’s meticulously researched and thoughtful study has filled an important historical lacuna in explaining … Read more
Brendan Bradshaw and Dáire Keogh (eds) (Columba Press, E30) ISBN 1856073505 This is a collection of 23 articles, all relating to the history of Christianity in Ireland, which aim to fill the need for a book for ‘the interested non-specialist as well as undergraduates . . . about the history of the church in Ireland … Read more
Michael Hopkinson (Gill & Macmillan, €30) ISBN 071713010X The Irish Revolution, 1913–1923 Joost Augusteijn (ed.) (Palgrave, €25) ISBN 0333982266 Given its pivotal role in the shaping of modern Irish society and its long grip on the popular imagination, it is astonishing that until recently there was no single monograph about the War of Independence. Michael … Read more
Michael Barry (Aer Rianta, E16.44) ISBN 09540591 A View from Above, 200 Years of Aviation in Ireland Donal McCarron (O’Brien Press, E25.39) ISBN 0862786622 Cork is the second city of the Irish Republic and its airport, which has recently celebrated its fortieth anniversary, is rapidly overtaking Shannon as the second most important airport after Dublin. … Read more
Conor McCarthy (Four Courts Press,E45) ISBN 1851824758 The notion that Ireland is wracked by an unprecedented cultural crisis has become a new orthodoxy accepted both by the side-bar columnists of the Irish Times and the cosmopolitan academic elite. The theoretical basis for this approach was located in the Anglo-American disciplines of cultural studies and post-colonial … Read more