DONAL HALL and EOIN MAGENNIS Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781801510806 Reviewed by Patrick Mulroe Patrick Mulroe is a recipient of a Royal Irish Academy Decade of Centenaries Bursary looking at Northern Ireland in 1922. This is the latest in the series from Four Courts Press examining individual counties in the revolutionary period. Like other … Read more
WARREN FARRELL Merrion Press €19.99 ISBN 9781785375125 REVIEWED BY John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy programme and was formerly Education and Outreach Officer at Glasnevin Cemetery Museum. The subtitle of Warren Farrell’s So once was I: forgotten tales from Glasnevin Cemetery is inevitably eye-catching, … Read more
JOSEPH MANNION Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781801511209 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. This very welcome book by Joseph Mannion offers the first monograph-length study of the impact of English colonisation on Connacht during one of the most formative periods in Irish history, … Read more
HARMAN MURTAGH and DIARMUID MURTAGH Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781801511216 Reviewed by David Murphy The Williamite Wars (1688–91) were a seminal series of events in Irish history and they have been the focus of much historical writing in the centuries since. It would be true to say that the Battle of the Boyne (1690) … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald Alan Kelly’s The struggle for mastery in Ireland, 1442–1540: culture, politics and Kildare–Ormond rivalry documents the tussle for dominance of the English colony in Ireland between the leading magnate families at the time, the Fitzgeralds of Kildare and the Butlers of Ormond. These two leading houses of the old colonial community sustained … Read more