Ruth Musielak, Charlemont’s Marino: portrait of a landscape (OPW, no price given, 80pp, ISBN 9781406428223). Saothar 38: (Irish Labour History Society, ?25, 192pp, ISSN 03321169). Bryan MacMahon, Robert Tressell, Dubliner: (Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, ?10, 112pp, ISBN 9780954986582). Dominic Phelan, Cornelius Ryan: D-Day reporter (Dominic Phelan, no price given, 80pp, ISBN 9781497432543). Tom Reilly, … Read more
JASON R. MYERS Academica Press $82.95 ISBN 9781936320264 Reviewed by Tomás Irish There has been an explosion of interest in Ireland’s experience of the Great War in recent years. As the centenary of the outbreak of the war approaches, scholarly and popular interest has focused not only on the Irish experience of war but also … Read more
Charles Messenger Pen and Sword Books £25 ISBN 9781848848970 Reviewed by Timothy Bowman On 1 July 1916, F.P. Crozier, then a lieutenant colonel, led his men of the 9th Royal Irish Rifles out of Thiepval Wood to attack the Schwaben Redoubt during the Battle of the Somme. In doing so he defied orders that no … Read more
JANE G.V. McGAUGHEY McGill–Queen’s University Press $95 CAD ISBN 9780773539723 Reviewed by Jessica Meyer In the past twenty years masculinity as a framework of historical analysis has moved from the margins of gender history in First World War studies to become a central element of discussion. Since the publication of Joanna Bourke’s Dismembering the male … Read more
CHRISTOPHER CLARK Penguin £10.99 ISBN 9780141027821 Reviewed by Eoin Dillon For undergraduates nearly 40 years ago, or at least this one, understanding the causes of the First World War was problematic. The sheer scale of what was being considered was overwhelming, particularly in an era when a good part of central Europe and beyond was … Read more