TOM O’DONOGHUE and JUDITH HARFORD Palgrave Macmillan £65 ISBN 9781137560797 Reviewed by: Brian Fleming The 1960s were a period of considerable change in Irish education. Events during that period have been described subsequently in many books and articles. These have concentrated on the actions and experiences of policy-makers in government and other members of the … Read more
DANIEL C. WILLIAMSON Bloomsbury £76.50 ISBN 9781474216968 Reviewed by: Richard English Amid current frustrations regarding politics in Northern Ireland, it is vital to recall what genuine crisis in the North has actually involved. Daniel C. Williamson’s lucid and fair-minded study of Anglo-Irish relations during the early phase of the Northern Ireland Troubles offers helpful insight … Read more
ROBIN BURY History Press of Ireland €18 ISBN 9781845888800 Reviewed by: Niall Meehan This survey of twentieth-century southern Protestant experience notes that it began badly for Protestant landlords. Their huge estates were subdivided for purchase by unappreciative, mainly Romanist, tenants. Then things went further downhill. Bury’s narrative asserts that IRA attacks on individual Protestants during … Read more
PRICILLA METSCHER Connolly Books €25 ISBN 9780993578502 Reviewed by: Emmet O’Connor Republicanism and socialism in Ireland is based on Priscilla Metscher’s Ph.D dissertation, completed at Bremen University in 1984. Even in 1984 it was an old-fashioned study, treading a path worn by W.P. Ryan, T.A. Jackson, Emil Strauss, Peter Beresford Ellis and others of the … Read more
ed. EC MARK WILLIAMS Princeton University Press $39.50 ISBN 9780691157313 Reviewed by: Angela Bourke Between Charles Stewart Parnell’s death in 1891 and the 1916 Rising, pre-Christian Ireland exercised a fascination that lies behind the present fact of Irish sovereignty. The years of cultural revival were saturated in the pagan past. Parents who broke with tradition … Read more