Keith Busby Brepols €110 ISBN 9782503570211 Reviewed by: Caoimhe Whelan Caoimhe Whelan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. This volume offers encyclopaedic coverage from the twelfth–fourteenth centuries of both the French language and literature in medieval Ireland and the representation of Ireland in medieval French literature. Drawing on … Read more
ALEXANDER O’HARA (ed.) Oxford University Press £61 ISBN 9780190857967 Reviewed by: Carlo Cedro Carlo Cedro is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on Columbanus in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. When the Irish abbot Columbanus travelled through early seventh-century Europe, he moved within a fluid matrix of ethnic, political and cultural realities adapting to … Read more
Medieval Irish Books & Texts (c. 400-c. 1600) DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN (ed.) Brepols €875.00 ISBN 9782503548579 Reviewed by: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín In this ‘decade of centenaries’ it is perhaps appropriate to point out that almost 100 years ago, to coincide with the establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922, Eoin MacNeill—regarded by … Read more
Garda Museum Dublin Castle museum@garda.ie, +353 (0)1 6669998 By Tony Canavan The Garda Museum is located in refurbished vaults in the Treasury Building of the Dublin Castle complex. It houses a state-of-the-art exhibition utilising traditional and modern display techniques, and takes the visitor on a journey from the early days of British policing in Ireland … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls About halfway through his superb new biography of St Patrick, Roy Flechner, while referring to an earlier standard work, writes: ‘The present study, it is hoped, is just as successful in attaining the coveted status of “least improbable”’. Saint Patrick retold is that rare amalgam of academic rigour married to stylish … Read more