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Navigating the Zeitgeist: a story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish republicanism, and international communism

HELENA SHEEHAN Monthly Review Press €25 ISBN 9781583677278 Reviewed by:Anthony Coughlan Anthony Coughlan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Helena Sheehan is internationally known as one of Ireland’s leading left-wing intellectuals. Her book Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history, first published in 1985, is the classic work … Read more

BELFAST BATTALION: A HISTORY OF THE BELFAST IRA 1922–1969

JOHN O’NEILL Litter Press £15 ISBN 9781999300814 Reviewed by Fergus Whelan Fergus Whelan is the author of Dissent into treason (Brandon, 2010) and God-provoking democrat (New Island, 2015). John O’Neill’s book sets out a chronology of the activities of the Belfast IRA from November 1922 to September 1969, relying for the most part on newspaper coverage and … Read more

NA FIANNA ÉIREANN AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION, 1909–23: scouting for rebels

MARNIE HAY Manchester University Press £80 ISBN 9780719096839 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. The opening of the archives of the Bureau of Military History and the Military Service Pensions Collection has provided a new quarry of evidence to allow deeper scrutiny of the organisational structures and networks … Read more

SOCIAL LIFE IN PRE-REFORMATION DUBLIN, 1450–1540

PEADAR SLATTERY Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846 827907 Reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies Henry A. Jefferies is a Research Associate in History at Ulster University. This is a rare book, an academic study that will certainly appeal to a popular readership. In remarkable detail, Dr Slattery describes what life was actually like for the … Read more

NORSE–GAELIC CONTACTS IN A VIKING WORLD

Colmán Etchingham, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (eds) Brepols €65 ISBN 9782503579023 Reviewed by Seán Duffy Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College Dublin. This is a book by academics for academics. Also, the indefinite article in the title matters. If we take the … Read more