IAN D’ALTON and IDA MILNE (eds) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782052982 Reviewed by Raymond Refaussé Raymond Refaussé was Librarian and Archivist of the Church of Ireland until his retirement in 2016. There can be little doubt that since the Reformation the issue of identity has been a major preoccupation for Irish Protestants. This has … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Anyone who has spent time in Galway will be familiar with the ‘pictorial map’ of the early modern town, a ‘bird’s-eye’ illustration detailing with remarkable accuracy the street layout and the significant buildings and landmarks of the time. A print of the map is framed on the walls of nearly every … Read more
KEVIN O’ROURKE Pelican €20 ISBN 9780241398272 Reviewed by Eoin Dillon Eoin Dillon is a scholar of twentieth-century African history. Brexit has produced a crisis in the British body politic unparallelled since the Second World War. Suez in 1956, when France, the UK and Israel tried to re-seize the canal from the Egyptians and had to … Read more
MILTON C. TOBY University Press of Kentucky $29.95 ISBN 9780813176239 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of Empire of deception and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. On a bitterly cold night in February 1983, a band of armed and masked men descended on a stud … Read more
PATRICIA LYSAGHT ClareBooks €13.50 ISBN 9781999611613 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. The historian, prior to any analysis, has to preserve the memory of the past, and in such a way that it is accessible to later times with as little damage from time’s passing … Read more