JIM SMYTH (ed.) University of Notre Dame Press $40 ISBN 9780268101749 Reviewed by: Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is an Irish History Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. This book is a welcome reminder that it is possible for historians writing about Ireland’s long war to be fair-minded, even-handed and empathetic. In that alone it … Read more
PATRICK MULROE Irish Academic Press €24.99 ISBN 9781911024521 Reviewed by: Deaglán de Bréadún Deaglán de Bréadún is the author of Power play: the rise of modern Sinn Féin (Irish Academic Press, 2015). Patrick Mulroe has performed a very useful public service in this book of almost 300 pages by chronicling and analysing the approach of … Read more
TOM BURKE Mercier Press €17.99 ISBN 9781781174845 Reviewed by: Patrick Callan Patrick Callan is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin. Michael Wall enlisted in January 1916 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment. A nineteen-year-old officer, he died during the Battle of Messines in June … Read more
The life of John Roy Lynch, whose political career during Reconstruction is one of the most remarkable achievements in the pantheon of Irish-American politics. By Joe Regan On 3 November 1939, the New York Times reflected on the political career of the recently deceased John Roy Lynch, remarking that he was ‘one of the most … Read more
The life and times of John Philpot Curran. By Patrick Gageby Sadly, barristers are not now as popular as they used to be. John Philpot Curran was probably the most widely known barrister, Irish or British, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His speeches were reprinted throughout the nineteenth century, and in Ireland … Read more