JONATHAN EVERSHED Notre Dame Press £43 ISBN 9780268103859 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In contemporary Ireland, many see commemoration of the Great War as aiding reconciliation, hoping that the ‘shared human costs’ of the conflict might ‘transcend local Irish political sectarian differences’. As Jonathan Evershed … Read more
RICHARD GRAYSON Cambridge University Press £20 ISBN 9781107029255 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is DFAT100 Project Co-ordinator with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project. Richard Grayson’s Dublin’s great wars is an exploration of how Dubliners (from both city and county) participated in conflict during the revolutionary era. That means, in … Read more
SPARKY BOOKER Cambridge University Press £75/€83 ISBN 9781107128088 Reviewed bySimon Egan Simon Egan is a postdoctoral fellow in medieval history at the University of Glasgow. The debate surrounding the extent to which the original Anglo-Norman conquistadores of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries were assimilated into the socio-cultural world of Gaelic Ireland remains divisive … Read more
PÁDRAIG LENIHAN and KEITH SIDWELL (eds) Irish Manuscripts Commission €50 ISBN 9781906856597 Reviewed byThomas Black Thomas Black is a doctoral researcher in early modern Scottish and Irish literature at the University of Nottingham. The Poema de Hibernia was written in captivity by an unknown Catholic Irish Jacobite immediately after the Williamite conquest of Ireland in … Read more
JAMES KELLY (ed.) Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781107115200 Reviewed by Timothy Murtagh For anyone looking for a general survey of Irish history, the last several years have represented a bonanza of historical publishing. There has been the Oxford handbook of modern Irish history (2014), the Princeton history of modern Ireland (2016) and the Cambridge social … Read more