DAVID DICKSON Yale University Press €22 ISBN 9780300229462 Reviewed by John Cunningham ‘Many of the best streets are entirely occupied by shops; these have all large windows, in which the articles are exhibited to attract purchasers. They also have over the doors a plank painted black, on which is inscribed, in gold letters, the name … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the middle of the Civil War, an IRA intelligence report from November 1922 assessed the 52 pro-Treaty members of Dublin Corporation thus: ten Treaty, including (Lord Mayor) Laurence O’Neill and Alfie Byrne; 32 pro-Treaty, ‘but not so bad’; and ten hard pro-Treatyites, ‘real bad eggs’. One of those ‘bad eggs’ … Read more
SEAMUS DEANE Cambridge University Press €28 ISBN 9781108892810 Reviewed by Vona Groarke Vona Groarke is a poet and author. Her Link: poet and world will be published in October 2021 by the Galley Press. When the published essay seems, so often now, to have the qualifier ‘personal’ attached, it is as refreshing as it is … Read more
LEESA WHEATLEY and FLORIAN KROBB (trans. & ed.) Cork University Press €29 ISBN 9781782054351 Reviewed by Róisín Healy Róisín Healy lectures in History and Philosophy at NUI, Galway. A journalist based in Berlin, Richard Arnold Bermann travelled to Ireland at a moment of great political uncertainty for both Ireland and Europe. In the summer of … Read more
JOEP LEERSSEN (ed.) Cambridge University Press £30 ISBN 9781108861786 Reviewed by Margaret O’Callaghan Margaret O’Callaghan is a historian and political analyst at Queen’s University, Belfast. This is a collection of essays written by some of the distinguished scholars who have held the annual Parnell Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, over the past decades. It is … Read more