ROBERT LYNCH Cambridge University Press €24 ISBN 9780521189583 Reviewed by: Martin Mansergh Martin Mansergh is a former politician and NI adviser. There is a growing literature on the border and partition, stimulated as much by their central role to date in the drama of Brexit as by the looming centenary. This book has the stated … Read more
EOIN O’DUFFY Reconquista Press €15 ISBN 9781912853076 The Salamanca diaries: Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil War TIM FANNING Irish Academic Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785372773 Reviewed by: John Dorney Irishmen fought on both sides of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). These two recently released books shed light on the larger Irish intervention, that led by … Read more
HELENA SHEEHAN Monthly Review Press €25 ISBN 9781583677278 Reviewed by:Anthony Coughlan Anthony Coughlan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Helena Sheehan is internationally known as one of Ireland’s leading left-wing intellectuals. Her book Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history, first published in 1985, is the classic work … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 06/1834 Richard Martin (79), landowner and politician, died. Residing in Dangan House, some four miles upstream on the Corrib from Galway city, Martin, who sat in both the Irish House of Commons and the British House of Commons, was the owner of the largest estate in Ireland, some 200,000 acres. Renowned … Read more
Handwritten news was exchanged across Europe in what was a lucrative and powerful network. By Eoin Hahessy Irish research has found an entirely lost news environment in the Medici papers at Florence’s State Archives. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries early modern Europe communicated by handwritten newsletters, many of which had been forgotten until now. … Read more