TOBY BARNARD Four Courts Press €50 ISBN 9781846826290 Reviewed by Eamon Darcy Eamon Darcy lectures in history at Maynooth University and is the author of The world of Thomas Ward: sex and scandal in late seventeenth-century Co. Antrim. The purpose of this volume is to investigate how Irish people encountered and engaged with the world … Read more
JOSEPH E.A. CONNELL Jr Wordwell Books €19 ISBN 9780993351884 Reviewed by Lorcan Collins Lorcan Collins is the author of 1916: the Rising handbook (O’Brien Press, 2016). Joe Connell, a regular contributor to History Ireland, is responsible for collecting and publishing an enormous database of addresses associated with the revolutionary period 1916–23. His encyclopaedic knowledge and … Read more
SEÁN MITCHELL Haymarket €17.50 ISBN 9781608466788 Reviewed by Geoffrey Bell Geoffrey Bell is the author of Hesitant comrades: the Irish revolution and the British labour movement (Pluto, 2016). In October 1932 the workers of Belfast rioted. Nothing new there. They had rioted many times before and were to do so many times again. Such, apparently, … Read more
By Joe Culley Eugene Broderick, John Hearne: architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland (Irish Academic Press, €29.99 hb, 300pp, ISBN 9781911024538). Dr Hubert O’Connor, Napoleon’s doctor: the St Helena diary of Barry O’Meara (O’Brien Press, $16.99 pb, 224pp, ISBN 9781847178916). Conor McNamara and Padraig Yeates (eds), The Dublin Lockout 1913: new perspectives on class … Read more
MICHELE CALLAN Collins Press €14.99 ISBN 9781848893016 HITLER’S IRISH SLAVES DAVID BLAKE KNOX New Island Books €15.95 ISBN 9781848405967 Reviewed by: David O’Donoghue David O’Donoghue is the author of Hitler’s Irish voices (Somerville Press, 2014). It’s a bit like the old Dublin bus joke: you wait for ages and then two come along at once. … Read more