W.J. McCORMACK Michigan State University Press $29.95 ISBN 9781611861914 Reviewed by: Eoin Dillon After reading W.J. (Bill) McCormack’s account of intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and Britain, the 1916 Rising in Ireland and the role of the Plunkett family, particularly that of George Noble Plunkett and his better-known son, Joseph, military planner of … Read more
MICHELLE P. BROWN Bodleian Library £25 ISBN 9781851244461 Reviewed by: Peter Harbison The very first page of the Introduction of this book points out rightly that this is the first work to deal with the artistic development and cultural milieu of the whole ‘archipelago of islands’ comprising Britain and Ireland from the end of the … Read more
Ed. EC SENIA PASETA (ed.) Oxford University Press £60 ISBN 9780198748274 Reviewed by: Shane Nagle It is difficult to review a festschrift. Does one focus on the historian to whom the volume is dedicated or examine the essays that comprise the book, searching for common threads and the links with the historian who is being … Read more
By Joe Cully Maynooth Studies in Local History: Eamon Darcy, The world of Thomas Ward: sex and scandal in late 17th-century Co. Antrim (Four Courts Press, €9.95 pb, 56pp, ISBN 9781846826092). Martin McCarthy, The committal of two Mallow children to an industrial school in 1893 (Four Courts Press, €9.95 pb, 62pp, ISBN 9781846826108). Emmet O’Connor, … Read more
Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast Creativecentenaries.org By Tony Canavan The Ulster Museum is to be congratulated for its imaginative approach to 1916. With so many commemorative exhibitions, it is difficult to find a new way to approach the centenary. This exhibition is part of a larger initiative in Northern Ireland promoting a creative response to … Read more