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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland: a popular history, Finlay Holmes. (Columba Press, £7.99) ISBN 1856072843 Ulster-American Religion: episodes in the history of a cultural tradition, David Livingstone and Ronald A. Wells, University of Notre Da

Professor Finlay Holmes has put us in his debt once again by telling the often very complex story of Irish Presbyterianism in a narrative which is itself a model of clarity. In this book he returns to some themes which he has treated of before in articles in learned journals but which the general reader … Read more

History of the Diocese of Derry

History of the Diocese of Derry, Henry A. Jefferies and Ciaran Devlin (Four Courts Press, hardback £19.95) ISBN 18512824901 Religious Renewal and Reform in the Pastoral Ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Lieghlin, 1786-1834 ,Thomas McGrath (Four Courts Press, £35) ISBN 1851823719 Politics, Interdenominational Relations and Education in the Public Ministry of Bishop … Read more

Alexius Stafford

The Ireland in which Alexius Stafford was born and reared, in the mid-1600s, was a troubled land. The great rebellion of 1641 had been followed by the advent of Oliver Cromwell and his subsequent land confiscations and plantations in the early 1650s. Battles, sieges, despoliation and depression had ravaged town and country. By 1688-89, there … Read more

“A dangerous man to be among the Irish”

In 1585 the English privy council branded Richard Creagh ‘a dangerous man to be among the Irish for the reverence that is by that nation borne unto him’, and ordered that he should be detained in the Tower of London. The eighteen-year incarceration of the Archbishop of Armagh in London and Dublin was acutely embarrassing … Read more

Mathew de Renzi

Sir,—I refer to the article ‘A German planter in the Midlands’, byBrendan Ryan (HI Spring 2000). Readers might be interested in thefollowing items for further reading: R. Loeber, ‘Civilization throughplantation: the projects of Mathew de Renzi’, in H. Murtagh (ed.),Irish Midland Studies (1980); B. Mac Cuarta, ‘A planter’s interactionwith Gaelic culture: Sir Matthew De Renzy’, … Read more