Finbar Cullen (ed.) (The Ireland Institute, E7.50) ISSSN 13939696 These two volumes make a sharp contrast. The first volume is a reasonably lively set of essays, most of them making a fairly conventional contemporary Irish radical republican argument. Some of these essays are lively and generous in tone but there are plenty of moments of … Read more
John Horne & Alan Kramer (Yale University Press, £27.50) ISBN 0521582172 Conceiving Revolution—Irish Nationalist propaganda during the First World War Ben Novick(Four Courts Press, E24.95) ISBN 1851826203 The justification of war can be a bitter and acrimonious matter capable of driving regimes to desperate ends to maintain the moral high ground. One state’s victory is … Read more
Essex got the chop on 25 February 1601. The tragic end of Robert Devereux, Elizabeth’s last heart-throb, has been variously represented. Bloomsbury gave its verdict in Lytton Strachey’s famous study Elizabeth and Essex. Hollywood had the unlikely but extremely successful combination of Errol Flynn and Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. … Read more
The Military Heritage of Ireiand Trust Limited was established in June 2000 on an all-lreland basis, to promote a greater knowledge and appreciation of all aspects of Ireland’s military heritage, including the military service of Irish men and women in the Defence Forces and foreign armies. The trust has received the co-operation and support of … Read more
The Economic and Social Research Council in the UK is funding a projectentitled ‘England and Ireland, 1170-1485: a guide to documents in thePublic Record Office’. The researcher is Paul Dryburgh, and the projectis supervised by Brendan Smith (University of Bristol) and PhilomenaConnolly (National Archives, Dublin). Work began in January 2002 andfunding has been secured for … Read more