BOB GALE and JOE WALSER Insight Editions $29.99 ISBN 9781683836216 Reviewed by James Bartlett James Bartlett is a writer and journalist. Forty years ago the first DeLorean DMC-12 rolled off the production line at the factory in Dunmurry, a suburb of Belfast. Decades later, former employees still talk fondly of those chaotic but exciting days. … Read more
IVAN GIBBONS Haus Publishing £12.99 ISBN 9781913368012 Reviewed by Cormac Moore Dr Cormac Moore is author of Birth of the border: the impact of partition in Ireland (Merrion Press, 2019). Chronologically this book mainly covers the years from 1900 to 1925, whilst still delving into developments in the nineteenth century that contributed to partition as … Read more
(Early Irish Law series vol. VIII) FERGUS KELLY (ed.) Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies €35 ISBN 9781855002418 Reviewed by Catherine Swift Dr Catherine Swift teaches medieval studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. A quiet revolution has been happening in early Irish law and Fergus Kelly has been one of its leaders. Until the … Read more
BARRY McLOUGHLIN and EMMET O’CONNOR UCD Press €30 ISBN 9781910820582 Reviewed by Maurice J. Casey On 14 April 1938, William McGregor, a young Dubliner with a background in the IRA and the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), was killed in action while fighting in the Battle of the Ebro, a major battle in the Spanish … Read more
Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American diplomacy in times of crisis, 1932–1939, Bernadette Whelan takes a close look at both the formal and informal efforts to build an understanding between our still-nascent state and the world power. One significant conclusion that Whelan reaches is identifying Dev’s blind spot: ‘… de … Read more