SEAMUS DEANE Cambridge University Press €28 ISBN 9781108892810 Reviewed by Vona Groarke Vona Groarke is a poet and author. Her Link: poet and world will be published in October 2021 by the Galley Press. When the published essay seems, so often now, to have the qualifier ‘personal’ attached, it is as refreshing as it is … Read more
LEESA WHEATLEY and FLORIAN KROBB (trans. & ed.) Cork University Press €29 ISBN 9781782054351 Reviewed by Róisín Healy Róisín Healy lectures in History and Philosophy at NUI, Galway. A journalist based in Berlin, Richard Arnold Bermann travelled to Ireland at a moment of great political uncertainty for both Ireland and Europe. In the summer of … Read more
JOEP LEERSSEN (ed.) Cambridge University Press £30 ISBN 9781108861786 Reviewed by Margaret O’Callaghan Margaret O’Callaghan is a historian and political analyst at Queen’s University, Belfast. This is a collection of essays written by some of the distinguished scholars who have held the annual Parnell Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, over the past decades. It is … Read more
RICHARD K. MAHER (ed.) Peter Lang £30 ISBN 9781789979343 Reviewed by Tony Canavan Tony Canavan is Consultant Editor of Books Ireland. While the title of this book may be eye-catching, it does not do justice to the breadth and depth of the essays it contains. Based on a seminar held in 2019 to commemorate the … Read more
MARTYN BENNETT, RAY GILLESPIE and R. SCOTT SPURLOCK (eds) Liverpool University Press £90 ISBN 9781789622379 Reviewed by Micheál Ó Siochrú To this day, Cromwell retains his status as one of Ireland’s most recognisable and controversial historical figures, blamed for a series of major atrocities, including notorious massacres at Drogheda and Wexford and mass deportations to … Read more