PAUL ROUSE Oxford University Press £30 ISBN 9780198745907 Reviewed by Kevin McCarthy Firstly, let’s be straight about it: this is a really good book, and one which should appeal in equal measure to both sports fans and students of Irish history. Paul Rouse has won significant acclaim over the years as a social and sporting … Read more
PATRICK FITZGERALD, CHRISTINE KINEALY & GERARD MORAN (EDS) Quinnipiac University Press $35/€30/£25 ISBN 9780990945406 Reviewed by Liam Kennedy Ten million people emigrated from the small island of Ireland to other parts of the world between 1700 and the present. Some were adventurers, some were social outcasts, some were missionaries and some were fleeing war and … Read more
GEARÓID Ó TUATHAIGH Quinnipiac University Press and Cork University Press €11.95/£9.95 ISBN 9780990468677 Reviewed by Proinsias Ó Drisceoil Neo-liberal notions of consumer choice may have influenced a tendency to attribute the shift from Irish to English as the dominant spoken language in Ireland to rational personal convenience, but what the author of this brief study … Read more
BRENDAN BRADSHAW Ashgate £75 ISBN 9781472442567 Reviewed by Hiram Morgan This book is a collection of essays by Brendan Bradshaw, the well-known historian of Tudor Ireland and opponent of historical revisionism. Besides a number of new pieces, it includes reprints of the various essays and reviews in which he laid down his famous challenge to … Read more
MAURICE WALSH Faber and Faber £26 ISBN 9780571243006 Reviewed by Padraig Yeates This is probably the best overview of the revolutionary era in the current crop of books prompted by the ‘decade of centenaries’. It is superbly crafted and a joy to read. It is particularly suited to an international audience wishing to know more … Read more