What does the public reaction to the safe retrieval of holy relics from Notre Dame Cathedral reveal about the cult of relics in the modern world? By Niamh Wycherley Shocking images and live videos of a burning Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, spread like the fire itself across the internet on 15 April this year. While … Read more
GUY BEINER Oxford University Press £31.50 ISBN 9780198749356 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell How do we orientate the divide between what is publicly acknowledged and what is privately remembered? For anyone who has followed the debate over commemorative politics and legacy problems in Ireland, there is now a shelf-full of books published since the late 1990s … Read more
TIMOTHY D. WATT Boydell Press, Irish Historical Monographs £65 ISBN 9781783273126 Reviewed by Myrtle Hill Myrtle Hill is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. As with former publications in the series, this latest monograph sheds light on a previously under-researched aspect of life in Ireland, focusing on our history from a perspective that highlights … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN Don’t mention the war, massacres or mutiny The British government is having problems with its advisory board on commemorating the First World War. Some members of the board believe that the centenary commemorations should be extended to mark other centenaries. The group, set up under David Cameron, advised on four years … Read more
MICHAEL McCANN Mercier Press €16.99 ISBN 9781781176191 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is the author of The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968–79: boiling volcano? (Manchester University Press, 2018). This is an important book that gives a voice to some of those nationalists who were driven from their homes in … Read more