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
TIMOTHY D. WATT Boydell Press, Irish Historical Monographs £65 ISBN 9781783273126 Reviewed by Myrtle Hill Myrtle Hill is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. As with former publications in the series, this latest monograph sheds light on a previously under-researched aspect of life in Ireland, focusing on our history from a perspective that highlights … Read more
MICHAEL McCANN Mercier Press €16.99 ISBN 9781781176191 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is the author of The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968–79: boiling volcano? (Manchester University Press, 2018). This is an important book that gives a voice to some of those nationalists who were driven from their homes in … Read more
JOHN GIBNEY Yale University Press $25 ISBN 9780300208511 Reviewed by Evan Comerford With an MA in Irish History from Maynooth University, Evan Comerford is a civil servant with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. ‘Certainly, even if history were judged incapable of other uses, its entertainment value would remain in its favour.’ So … Read more
CATRIONA J. McKENZIE and EILEEN M. MURPHY Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846823305 Reviewed by: Áine Foley Áine Foley is a Busteed Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. In 2003 a cemetery at Ballyhanna, near Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, was excavated, revealing the skeletal remains of almost 1,300 individuals. Radiocarbon dating established … Read more