Trials of Irish history: genesis and evolution of a reappraisal, 1938–2000 Evi Gkotzaridis (Routledge, £75) ISBN 0415329183 This is the oddest yet most engaging examination so far of the so-called ‘revisionist school’ of Irish historians, whose precepts, motives and performance have been subjected to an often rancorous but largely sterile debate over the past two … Read more
In spite of our best intentions to review as many Africa-related books as possible in the special Africa issue (HI 14.4, July/Aug. 2006), some important titles only came to our attention after we had gone to press. One of these, Rose Doyle’s Heroes of Jadotville: the soldiers’ story (New Island, 383pp, ?19.95, ISBN 1905494319)—featured in … Read more
Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne Baile an Fheirtéaraigh, Co. Chiarraí (Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry) +353 (0)66 9156333/9156100 www.cfcd.ie 10am–6pm daily, April–September by Tony Canavan The regional museum for the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht is in the old schoolhouse, built in 1875, in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh. It was opened in 1985 and has been going from strength to strength ever … Read more
Unsentimental realist RTÉ 1 Mairtín Ó Cadhain Directed by Seán Ó Cualain and Macdara Ó Curraidein TG4 There goes Cré na Cille Directed by Breandán Ó hEithir (originally broadcast in 1976) by Eamon O’Flaherty This year has seen the centenary of the births of Samuel Beckett and Mairtín Ó Cadhain, Irish writers who have had … Read more
SCOTT, John (1739–98), first earl of Clonmel, lawyer and MP, was born 8 June 1739, third son of Thomas Scott, Church of Ireland vicar of Urlings, Co. Kilkenny, and his wife Rachel (née Prim) of Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny. During his early education at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Scott protected Hugh Carleton, later Lord Viscount Carleton, from … Read more