Reviews

Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval Ireland: the English and Irish of the four obedient shires

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

Poema de Hibernia: a Jacobite Latin epic on the Williamite Wars

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

Cambridge history of Ireland, Vol. 3: 1730–1880

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