Volume 17

Enforcing the English reformation in Ireland: clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590

Enforcing the English reformation in Ireland: clerical resistance and political conflict in the diocese of Dublin, 1534–1590 James Murray (Cambridge University Press, £60, $120) ISBN 9780521770385 Lacking the requisite documentation for an English-style study of the Reformation in Dublin (p. 15), James Murray presents an over-arching hypothesis: that Dublin’s clerical élites were committed to a … Read more

Inishmurray: monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape

Inishmurray: monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape Volume 1: Archaeological survey and excavations 1997–2000. Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin (Collins Press, €49.95) ISBN 9781905172474 The remains on Inishmurray, described by Lord Dunraven as ‘the most characteristic example now in existence of the earliest monastic establishments in Ireland’, consist of a central cashel containing … Read more

Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818: ultra-Protestant ideologue

Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818: ultra-Protestant ideologue James Kelly (Four Courts Press, €55) ISBN 9781846821486 The subject of this biography was also the subject of one of Irish history’s more memorable pen-portraits: ‘Sir Richard Musgrave, who (except on the abstract topics of politics, religion, martial law, his wife, the Pope, the Pretender, the Jesuits, Napper Tandy, … Read more

Contested island: Ireland 1460–1630

Contested island: Ireland 1460–1630 Divided kingdom: Ireland 1630–1800 S.J. Connolly (Oxford University Press, £35 each) ISBN 9780198208167 ISBN 9780199543472 The last decade has seen the publication of many surveys of the history of Ireland, including tomes from S.J. Connolly’s Queen’s University Belfast colleagues Alvin Jackson and Paul Bew. Tom Bartlett will shortly publish a single-volume … Read more

Bookworm

Irish history publishing tends to come in waves, often in tandem with public commemorations and anniversaries. A case in point is the 1798 Rebellion. In the run-up to the bicentenary commemorations what started as a trickle of articles and monographs, some on the occasion of the bicentenaries of the French Revolution in 1989 and the … Read more