PATRICIA LYSAGHT ClareBooks €13.50 ISBN 9781999611613 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. The historian, prior to any analysis, has to preserve the memory of the past, and in such a way that it is accessible to later times with as little damage from time’s passing … Read more
SARAH COVINGTON, VINCENT CAREY and VALERIE McGOWAN-DOYLE (eds) Routledge €40 ISBN 9780815373940 Reviewed by Simon Egan Simon Egan is a research fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 1500 the island of Ireland was, to most outside observers, a terra incognita. The land and seascape stretching from Mizen Head northwards through to Rathlin was controlled … Read more
BARRY WHELAN University of Notre Dame Press €74.90 ISBN 9780268105051 Reviewed by Manus O’Riordan I approached this review with a certain degree of apprehension. I had previously commented on Leopold H. Kerney for History Ireland on three occasions—my Spring 2003 review of Fearghal McGarry’s biography of Frank Ryan; my March–April 2007 review of the Leopold … Read more
The 1863 Boston draft riot. By Joe Regan During 1–5 May 1863, fighting raged in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, between the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Outnumbered by more than two to one, General Robert E. Lee had caught the Union army of Joseph Hooker off guard at the village … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons In the early years of Elizabeth I’s reign, Jacob Aconcio, an Italian inventor in England, sent a carefully worded petition to the queen: ‘Nothing is more honest than those who, by searching have found out things useful to the public, should have some fruit of their rights and labours, as meanwhile they … Read more