Book Reviews

CLAUDIA KINMONTH Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782054054 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and is the author of A short history of Ireland, 1500–2000 (Yale, 2017). Irish country furniture and furnishings has its origins in Kinmonth’s Irish country furniture, 1700–1950, originally published … Read more

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