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
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
JOHN GIBNEY Yale University Press $25 ISBN 9780300208511 Reviewed by Evan Comerford With an MA in Irish History from Maynooth University, Evan Comerford is a civil servant with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. ‘Certainly, even if history were judged incapable of other uses, its entertainment value would remain in its favour.’ So … Read more