DONNACHA Ó BEACHÁIN Manchester University Press £22.99 ISBN 9781526132956 Reviewed by Seán Donlon Seán Donlon is a former diplomat, participating in the 1973 Sunningdale conference and in the negotiation of the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, and was Irish ambassador to the United States, 1978–81. When in 1949 Germany was partitioned and the Federal (West) German government … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MARCH 04/1804 The Castle Hill (New South Wales) convict rebellion. Under cover of darkness, over 200 convicts (mainly Irish) escaped from Castle Hill government farm, some 30km west of Sydney town, intending to march there and ‘capture ships to sail to Ireland’. Their leader was Kerry-born United Irishman Philip Cunningham, a … Read more
JANE OHLMEYER (ed.) Cambridge University Press £100 ISBN 9781107117631 Reviewed by Hiram Morgan Ireland 1550–1730 is the second of four volumes intended as a flagship series on the history of Ireland for the ‘decade of commemorations’. The series showcases the work of a generation of scholars and inevitably invites comparison with Oxford University Press’s nine-volume … Read more
The Right Honourable Senator Hugh Thom Barrie JP, DL, MP was at the heart of Ulster Unionist politics at a time of great campaigning and political battles. But who was he? By Aaron Callan H.T. Barrie is not as well known as Carson or Craig, even in his adoptive town of Coleraine. In most books … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons This collection, the earliest run of travel documents, survives in the Augmentation Office papers in the Exchequer records of the UK National Archives. The Office derived from the Court of Augmentation, a financial court; the safe conduct of travellers was guaranteed by the Crown, for which it was also a useful source … Read more