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
TG4 and television history In a recent article in the Irish Times Magazine Ruadhán Mac Cormaic described the unexpected resurgence of television history. This is true across all the main British channels. In recent years Simon Schama and David Starkey have become public figures by offering magisterial surveys of British history and the history of … Read more
DINNEEN, Patrick Stephen (Ó DUINNÍN, Pádraig Stiabhna) (1860–1934), was born on 25 December 1860 on a smallholding in Carn townland, near Rathmore in the Sliabh Luachra district of County Kerry, the fifth of ten children of Maitiú Ó Duinnín, farmer and livestock trader, and Máire Ní Dhonnchadha (d. 1917). His parents, who had been evicted … Read more