COLIN BARR Cambridge University Press £75 ISBN 9781107040922 Reviewed by Oliver P. Rafferty SJ Oliver P. Rafferty SJ is professor of modern Irish and ecclesiastical history at Boston College. Colin Barr sets out to tell the story of the dominance of the Irish Catholic Church in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, and what … Read more
The agrarian movement of 1920. BY TERRY DUNNE An t-Óglách, the IRA newsletter, starkly pronounced on 1 May 1920: ‘The Irish Republican Army has found it necessary to take drastic steps for the enforcement of law and order’, and went on to specify the problem of ‘land-greed’ in Kerry. In Watchword of Labour, the newspaper … Read more
LOUISE NUGENTColumba Books€26.99ISBN 9781782183723 Reviewed by Meredith Cutrer Meredith Cutrer is a Ph.D student in University College Dublin’s School of History. One need not have spent much time studying medieval Ireland to appreciate that the Irish landscape is imbued with the sacred. As the number of holy sites attest, religion has long been a powerful … Read more
DARREN McGETTIGAN Four Courts Press €24.95 ISBN 9781846828362 Reviewed by Seán Duffy Seán Duffy is Professor of Medieval Irish and Insular History at Trinity College, Dublin. Readers will know that there are four provinces in Ireland—Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connacht. Many will also know that the Irish for ‘province’ is cúige—hence we say Cúige Uladh, … Read more
BY RACHEL MCKENNA Gloster House in County Offaly was the home of the Lloyd family for over three centuries, beginning in 1639, when Trevor Lloyd married Margaret, the sole heiress of landholder Francis Medhop, and ending with the sale of the estate by Major E.T.T. Lloyd in 1958. The union of Medhop Lloyd and Hannah … Read more