CATRIONA J. McKENZIE and EILEEN M. MURPHY Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846823305 Reviewed by: Áine Foley Áine Foley is a Busteed Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. In 2003 a cemetery at Ballyhanna, near Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, was excavated, revealing the skeletal remains of almost 1,300 individuals. Radiocarbon dating established … Read more
CIARÁN J. DEVLIN Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781846827556 Reviewed by: Sparky Booker Sparky Booker lectures in medieval history at Queen’s University, Belfast. It is clear when reading The making of medieval Derry that it is the fruit of a life’s work; it is characterised by an impressive depth and richness of detail, as well … Read more
Keith Busby Brepols €110 ISBN 9782503570211 Reviewed by: Caoimhe Whelan Caoimhe Whelan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. This volume offers encyclopaedic coverage from the twelfth–fourteenth centuries of both the French language and literature in medieval Ireland and the representation of Ireland in medieval French literature. Drawing on … Read more
ALEXANDER O’HARA (ed.) Oxford University Press £61 ISBN 9780190857967 Reviewed by: Carlo Cedro Carlo Cedro is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on Columbanus in the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. When the Irish abbot Columbanus travelled through early seventh-century Europe, he moved within a fluid matrix of ethnic, political and cultural realities adapting to … Read more
Medieval Irish Books & Texts (c. 400-c. 1600) DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN (ed.) Brepols €875.00 ISBN 9782503548579 Reviewed by: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín In this ‘decade of centenaries’ it is perhaps appropriate to point out that almost 100 years ago, to coincide with the establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922, Eoin MacNeill—regarded by … Read more