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
RICHARD K. MAHER (ed.) Peter Lang £30 ISBN 9781789979343 Reviewed by Tony Canavan Tony Canavan is Consultant Editor of Books Ireland. While the title of this book may be eye-catching, it does not do justice to the breadth and depth of the essays it contains. Based on a seminar held in 2019 to commemorate the … Read more
MARTYN BENNETT, RAY GILLESPIE and R. SCOTT SPURLOCK (eds) Liverpool University Press £90 ISBN 9781789622379 Reviewed by Micheál Ó Siochrú To this day, Cromwell retains his status as one of Ireland’s most recognisable and controversial historical figures, blamed for a series of major atrocities, including notorious massacres at Drogheda and Wexford and mass deportations to … Read more
STEPHEN COLLINS and CIARA MEEHAN Gill Books €22.99 ISBN 9780717189731 Reviewed by Barry Walsh Barry Walsh is a solicitor and a former vice-chairman of the Fine Gael executive council. This book has caused a lot of puzzlement among the many amateur historians in Fine Gael. While it contains a wealth of political facts and anecdotes, … Read more
KATHRYN MILLIGAN Manchester University Press £80 9781526144102 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and a former Governor and Guardian of the National Gallery of Ireland. This lucid book moves beyond conventional Irish art history and representations of Dublin. While visually, landscape and the west somewhat defined … Read more