Gothic Ireland: horror and the Irish Anglican imagination in the long eighteenth century Jarlath Killeen (Four Courts, E55) ISBN 1851829431 The title of this book initially suggests a study of the Gothic genre in Ireland in the eighteenth century, but Killeen delivers instead ‘a history of the social memory of Irish Anglicanism’, focusing on the … Read more
Mick: the real Michael Collins Peter Hart (Macmillan, E36.99) ISBN 1405052635Peter Hart writes well, and is obviously a man of ability, but the impression conveyed by this book is that he felt the time was opportune for a revisionist work on Collins. To attract readers he has adopted the technique not of the historian but … Read more
Old World colony: Cork and South Munster 1630–1830 David Dickson Cork University Press, E49 h/b, E29.95p/b ISBN 1859183557 Historians of eighteenth-century Ireland have waited a long time for the appearance of this book, a revised and expanded version of a pioneering and much-cited PhD thesis passed by its examiners nearly 30 years ago. Though prolonged, … Read more
Readers of a certain age (hands up all those who did their Leaving in the 1970s!) will remember with fondness the Gill History of Ireland series, in particular the last two—John A. Murphy’s on the twentieth century and Joe Lee’s Modernisation of Irish society, 1848–1918. For the hard-pressed student, both had the advantage of brevity … Read more
Galleries of Charles de Gaulle Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides, 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris www.invalides.org, 10am–5pm, Oct–March, 10am–6pm, April–Sept by Tony Canavan In the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War the decision was taken to upgrade France’s museum of the army housed in the magnificent … Read more