KEVIN WHELAN Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846827563 Reviewed by David Dickson David Dickson is Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin. Kevin Whelan is a unique figure in the Irish literary ecosystem: historical geographer, social historian, critic and public intellectual, he has been the central player in many collaborative projects over the last … Read more
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
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