Michael Barry (Aer Rianta, E16.44) ISBN 09540591 A View from Above, 200 Years of Aviation in Ireland Donal McCarron (O’Brien Press, E25.39) ISBN 0862786622 Cork is the second city of the Irish Republic and its airport, which has recently celebrated its fortieth anniversary, is rapidly overtaking Shannon as the second most important airport after Dublin. … Read more
Conor McCarthy (Four Courts Press,E45) ISBN 1851824758 The notion that Ireland is wracked by an unprecedented cultural crisis has become a new orthodoxy accepted both by the side-bar columnists of the Irish Times and the cosmopolitan academic elite. The theoretical basis for this approach was located in the Anglo-American disciplines of cultural studies and post-colonial … Read more
Sean Farren (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, £16.50) ISBN 0853895953 This is a thought provoking study. Sean Farren provides us not only with an insight into developments in the schools in both Northern Ireland and the Free State/Republic of Ireland, but shows the extent to which the schools were used by political and … Read more
Ute Lotz-Heumann (Mohr Siebeck, DM198) ISBN 3161474295 In 1605 Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel converted to Calvinism. This act, initially based on the landgrave’s private faith, had far-reaching consequences for his territory, which thirteen years later became entangled in the Thirty Years War, and for his traditionally Lutheran subjects. In a series of ordinances Maurice tried … Read more
Linda Connolly (Palgrave, E80.60) ISBN 33377132X This is a book by a sociologist which has a lot to offer historians. Its central focus is on the women’s movement in the Irish Republic from 1970 to the 1990s. The context for this is set by a brief survey of developments over the preceding hundred and more … Read more