IVAN GIBBONS Haus Publishing £12.99 ISBN 9781913368012 Reviewed by Cormac Moore Dr Cormac Moore is author of Birth of the border: the impact of partition in Ireland (Merrion Press, 2019). Chronologically this book mainly covers the years from 1900 to 1925, whilst still delving into developments in the nineteenth century that contributed to partition as … Read more
(Early Irish Law series vol. VIII) FERGUS KELLY (ed.) Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies €35 ISBN 9781855002418 Reviewed by Catherine Swift Dr Catherine Swift teaches medieval studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. A quiet revolution has been happening in early Irish law and Fergus Kelly has been one of its leaders. Until the … Read more
BARRY McLOUGHLIN and EMMET O’CONNOR UCD Press €30 ISBN 9781910820582 Reviewed by Maurice J. Casey On 14 April 1938, William McGregor, a young Dubliner with a background in the IRA and the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), was killed in action while fighting in the Battle of the Ebro, a major battle in the Spanish … Read more
Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American diplomacy in times of crisis, 1932–1939, Bernadette Whelan takes a close look at both the formal and informal efforts to build an understanding between our still-nascent state and the world power. One significant conclusion that Whelan reaches is identifying Dev’s blind spot: ‘… de … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn3EIhQYKNk Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is Professor Emeritus at Dublin City University and author of The enigma of Arthur Griffith: ‘Father of Us All’ (Merrion Press, 2020). President Michael D. Higgins has launched a series of in-depth seminars relating to the foundation of the Irish state. The first took place online in December … Read more