SARAH COVINGTON, VINCENT CAREY and VALERIE McGOWAN-DOYLE (eds) Routledge €40 ISBN 9780815373940 Reviewed by Simon Egan Simon Egan is a research fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 1500 the island of Ireland was, to most outside observers, a terra incognita. The land and seascape stretching from Mizen Head northwards through to Rathlin was controlled … Read more
BARRY WHELAN University of Notre Dame Press €74.90 ISBN 9780268105051 Reviewed by Manus O’Riordan I approached this review with a certain degree of apprehension. I had previously commented on Leopold H. Kerney for History Ireland on three occasions—my Spring 2003 review of Fearghal McGarry’s biography of Frank Ryan; my March–April 2007 review of the Leopold … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls When Dr Shane Kenna died two years ago he was only 33, yet he had already established himself as one of the leading and most popular historians of his generation. He had published a number of books and articles on nineteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, but he was possibly better known as a … Read more
EOIN SWITHIN WALSH Merrion Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785371974 Reviewed by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has a Ph.D in history and has written several books about the Irish Revolution. When most of us think about the Irish Revolution of 1913–23 a very limited geography and chronology of events tend to spring to … Read more
GUY BEINER Oxford University Press £31.50 ISBN 9780198749356 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell How do we orientate the divide between what is publicly acknowledged and what is privately remembered? For anyone who has followed the debate over commemorative politics and legacy problems in Ireland, there is now a shelf-full of books published since the late 1990s … Read more