JOHN O’NEILL Litter Press £15 ISBN 9781999300814 Reviewed by Fergus Whelan Fergus Whelan is the author of Dissent into treason (Brandon, 2010) and God-provoking democrat (New Island, 2015). John O’Neill’s book sets out a chronology of the activities of the Belfast IRA from November 1922 to September 1969, relying for the most part on newspaper coverage and … Read more
MARNIE HAY Manchester University Press £80 ISBN 9780719096839 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. The opening of the archives of the Bureau of Military History and the Military Service Pensions Collection has provided a new quarry of evidence to allow deeper scrutiny of the organisational structures and networks … Read more
PEADAR SLATTERY Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846 827907 Reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies Henry A. Jefferies is a Research Associate in History at Ulster University. This is a rare book, an academic study that will certainly appeal to a popular readership. In remarkable detail, Dr Slattery describes what life was actually like for the … Read more
Colmán Etchingham, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (eds) Brepols €65 ISBN 9782503579023 Reviewed by Seán Duffy Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College Dublin. This is a book by academics for academics. Also, the indefinite article in the title matters. If we take the … Read more
IAN D’ALTON and IDA MILNE (eds) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782052982 Reviewed by Raymond Refaussé Raymond Refaussé was Librarian and Archivist of the Church of Ireland until his retirement in 2016. There can be little doubt that since the Reformation the issue of identity has been a major preoccupation for Irish Protestants. This has … Read more