ADRIAN MARTYN Adrian Martyn €20 ISBN 9780995502505 Reviewed by Andreas Boldt Andreas Boldt is a Senior Tutor in German Studies in Maynooth University’s School of Languages. Adrian Martyn’s The tribes of Galway provides us with a history of the city of Galway—an ambitious undertaking set out in seven chapters. Within these chapters Martyn concentrates on … Read more
A DIFFICULT BIRTH: THE EARLY YEARS OF NORTHERN IRELAND, 1920–25 ALAN PARKINSON Eastwood Books €25 ISBN 9781838041625 POLITICAL CONFLICT IN EAST ULSTER 1920–22: REVOLUTION AND REPRISAL CHRISTOPHER MAGILL Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783275113 Reviewed by Seán Bernard Newman For historians of Northern Ireland, the lack of scholarship on anything and everything is a constant source … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In his contribution to From whence I came: the Kennedy legacy, Ireland and America, NUIG law lecturer and native Bostonian Larry Donnelly offers a scathing analysis of Ted Kennedy’s stance during the run-up to and implementation of the city’s ‘school bussing’ crisis of 1974. The plan was, ostensibly, a high-minded attempt … Read more
NOEL BRADY and SANDRA O’CONNELL (eds) O’Brien Press/Royal Institute for Architects in Ireland €29.99 ISBN 9781788491679 Reviewed by Joseph Brady Joseph Brady is Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at University College Dublin. Dublin by design: architecture and the city is a very welcome addition to studies of the development of the city. Including the introduction … Read more
BOB GALE and JOE WALSER Insight Editions $29.99 ISBN 9781683836216 Reviewed by James Bartlett James Bartlett is a writer and journalist. Forty years ago the first DeLorean DMC-12 rolled off the production line at the factory in Dunmurry, a suburb of Belfast. Decades later, former employees still talk fondly of those chaotic but exciting days. … Read more