KENNETH L. DAWSON Irish Academic Press €22.99 ISBN 9781911024750 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. Firmly admired by his fellow United Irishmen, Samuel Neilson (1762–1802) did not attain martial glory nor die a sacrificial death in 1798. With hisreputation tarnishedby accusations of reckless … Read more
JOHN DORNEY Merrion €19.99 ISBN 9781785370892 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 100 Project co-ordinator with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project. One of the great set pieces of the Irish revolution is the outbreak of the Civil War in Dublin in June 1922—the … Read more
FRED POWELL Policy Press £64 ISBN: 9781447332916 Reviewed by Bartholomew Begley Bartholomew Begley is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at Dublin City University. Fred Powellhas set himself the formidable,multi-facetedand laudable task of analysing the real rationale behind Ireland’s current welfare regime, describing the cultural and political path that got … Read more