JAMES DOHERTY Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782053606 Reviewed by Martin O’Donoghue Martin O’Donoghue is a lecturer in Irish and British history at Northumbria University. In 1935 George Dangerfield published The strange death of Liberal England—an attractive volume that explained the collapse of the Liberal Party in terms of major pre-war factors: the Conservative campaign … Read more
JOHN MULQUEEN Liverpool University Press £75 ISBN 9781789620641 Reviewed by Ruan O’Donnell Ruan O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. Given their centrality to matters pertaining to the recent ‘Long War’ and the burgeoning bibliography of that expansive topic, it is surprising how little has been published on the role of … Read more
RUTH A. CANNING Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783273270 Reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies Henry A. Jefferies is a research associate in history at Ulster University. Dr Canning uses the term ‘Old English’ explicitly to connote any descendants of English colonists who arrived in Ireland prior to 1541 (pp 2–3). She acknowledges that historians have ‘long … Read more
KEVIN HADDICK-FLYNN Matador €30 ISBN 9781838592004 Reviewed by Geoffrey Bell Geoffrey Bell’s The Protestants of Ulster was first published in 1976. Once, in the early 1960s when I was about thirteen, I was asked to take my English granny to watch a Twelfth of July march. We went to the Finaghy crossroads, on the edge … Read more
The rich, varied, active and very political life of a committed feminist, trade union activist and republican. By Mary McAuliffe There has been an upsurge in the researching and writing of Irish revolutionary women’s history in recent years, with a corresponding public interest in and engagement with the lives, activisms and contributions of these women. … Read more