By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr As British hopes for a military victory in the War of Independence faded, they began to wonder whether Ireland was worth the price in lives or money. Progressively throughout the first half of 1921 peace feelers were extended, and in July 1921 a truce was agreed. On 9 July terms … Read more
STEPHEN COLLINS and CIARA MEEHAN Gill Books €22.99 ISBN 9780717189731 Reviewed by Barry Walsh Barry Walsh is a solicitor and a former vice-chairman of the Fine Gael executive council. This book has caused a lot of puzzlement among the many amateur historians in Fine Gael. While it contains a wealth of political facts and anecdotes, … Read more
KATHRYN MILLIGAN Manchester University Press £80 9781526144102 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, and a former Governor and Guardian of the National Gallery of Ireland. This lucid book moves beyond conventional Irish art history and representations of Dublin. While visually, landscape and the west somewhat defined … Read more
CLAUDIA KINMONTH Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782054054 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the RIA’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and is the author of A short history of Ireland, 1500–2000 (Yale, 2017). Irish country furniture and furnishings has its origins in Kinmonth’s Irish country furniture, 1700–1950, originally published … Read more
ADRIAN MARTYN Adrian Martyn €20 ISBN 9780995502505 Reviewed by Andreas Boldt Andreas Boldt is a Senior Tutor in German Studies in Maynooth University’s School of Languages. Adrian Martyn’s The tribes of Galway provides us with a history of the city of Galway—an ambitious undertaking set out in seven chapters. Within these chapters Martyn concentrates on … Read more