The Irishman who sold sex, sport and sensationalism in late nineteenth-century America. By Liam Barry-Hayes Richard Kyle Fox was born on the Albertbridge Road, Belfast, on 12 August 1846. His father, James, was a carpenter and his mother, Mary (née Kyle), was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. As a teenager Fox worked as an … Read more
LIAM CAHILL Orla Kelly Publishing €15 ISBN 9781912328413 Reviewed by: D.R. O’Connor Lysaght D.R. O’Connor Lysaght’s The story of the Limerick Soviet appeared recently in its fifth edition. The Limerick Soviet of 1919 was a major episode in the Anglo-Irish War. It involved the population of Ireland’s fourth largest city, with 14,000 participating actively. Yet … Read more
Enhancing user access to the town’s oldest municipal minutes. By Gráinne Doran and Linda Doran Wexford County Archive is the official repository for the archives and records of local government in County Wexford, in addition to an extensive range of archival collections of private origin. The archive facilitates academic, local and family history … Read more
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