By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Rising had hardly been the work of a massive conspiracy, but the British acted as if it were. British security forces arrested 3,430 Irish men and 79 women, of whom 1,841 were sent to Britain and interned there. These were substantial figures in relation to the scale of the … Read more
ELLEN ROWLEY (ed.) Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press/University College Dublin €22.45 ISBN 9781902703442 Reviewed by: Mary Davies The population of Dublin city grew from just under 300,000 in 1900 to half a million half a century later, and More than concrete blocks is the first of three volumes commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office … Read more
LISA MARIE GRIFFITH and CIARÁN WALLACE (eds) Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781846826016 Reviewed by: Conor Dodd This publication originated at a conference of the same name that was organised by the Dublin City Research Group in 2014 and explored various aspects of death and the city in the modern era. As the editors point … Read more
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