JANE GRAY, RUTH GERAGHTY and DAVID RALPH Manchester University Press £16.99 ISBN 9780719091520 Reviewed by: Mary Corcoran Mary Corcoran is Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. What a joy to review a sociological work that is empirically rich and theoretically driven while avoiding a retreat into the obtuse and the arcane. Family rhythms: the changing … Read more
CHRISTOPHER MAGINN and GERALD POWER (eds) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846826054 Reviewed by: David Edwards David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork. For 40 years Steven Ellis has been a significant figure in the history of late medieval and early modern Ireland. An authority on the Tudor monarchy, specialising particularly … Read more
BRIAN MURPHY Collins Press €15.99 ISBN 9781848892903 Reviewed by: Tom Garvin Tom Garvin is emeritus Professor of Politics at University College Dublin. Brian Murphy has produced a well-researched and thoroughgoing biography of Douglas Hyde, first president of Ireland under the 1937 Constitution. Hyde was born in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, in 1860, son of a Protestant … Read more
ELLEN ROWLEY (ed.) Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press/University College Dublin €22.45 ISBN 9781902703442 Reviewed by: Mary Davies The population of Dublin city grew from just under 300,000 in 1900 to half a million half a century later, and More than concrete blocks is the first of three volumes commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office … Read more
LISA MARIE GRIFFITH and CIARÁN WALLACE (eds) Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781846826016 Reviewed by: Conor Dodd This publication originated at a conference of the same name that was organised by the Dublin City Research Group in 2014 and explored various aspects of death and the city in the modern era. As the editors point … Read more