James Loughlin Liverpool University Press £90 ISBN 9781786941770 Reviewed by Niall Meehan Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College, Dublin, and author (with Brian Murphy OSB) of The embers of revisionism (Aubane, 2017). Ardent Empire loyalists considered Britain’s ceding of control over 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties in 1922 … Read more
COLUM KENNY Irish Academic Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785373145 Reviewed by Owen McGee Owen McGee is the author of A history of Ireland in international relations (Irish Academic Press, 2020). Rather than taking the form of a biography, this concise and stylish new assessment of Griffith focuses on particular episodes or themes to assess his significance. … Read more
STEPHEN PULEO St Martin’s Press $28.99 ISBN 9781250200471 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of Empire of deception and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a perilous voyage—a run from Boston to Ireland in April, perhaps the stormiest month to be crossing the … Read more
ROLF LOEBER (edited by Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846828201 Reviewed by Arnold Horner The late Rolf Loeber (1942–2017) worked for over 50 years on topics related to Irish architecture and to Irish social history and literature, broadly interpreted. Born in the Netherlands and for most of his life based … Read more
BRENDAN SCOTT (ed.) Four Courts Press €50 ISBN 9781846827358 Reviewed by David Heffernan David Heffernan is a historian of Tudor and early Stuart Ireland. The role of the towns in the Ulster Plantation initiated around 1609 by the government of James I has always been central to the broader historiography of the plantation during the … Read more