TERRY MOYLAN (ed.) Craft Recordings €30 ISBN 9780955311215 Reviewed by Donal Fallon Donal Fallon is a historian and the presenter of the ‘Three Castles Burning’ podcast, which explores the social history of Dublin. That there has been something of a resurgence in traditional and folk music is widely acknowledged, leading to Choice Music Award success … Read more
PATRICK O’SULLIVAN GREENE Eastwood Books €20 ISBN 9781916137585 Reviewed by Paschal Donohoe, TD Paschal Donohoe is the Minister for Finance. The National Treasury Management Agency has a low public profile but is essential to the operation of our state. The phrase ‘treasury’ is suggestive of great riches, of bullion residing in secure vaults for national … Read more
JAMES P. BRUCE Vernon Press €38 ISBN 9781622738984 Reviewed by Emmet O’Connor Emmet O’Connor is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at Ulster University. Few nationalist movements had as many luminaries per capita as Young Ireland. Most have now been elbowed aside in public history by heroes of subsequent struggles, but … Read more
EUNAN O’HALPIN and DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN Yale University Press €55 ISBN 9780300123821 Reviewed by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc The authors of this book deserve a great deal of praise for taking on the monumental task of identifying, researching and recording the deaths of every person killed as a result of political conflict in Ireland from … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls A crowded drawing-room. A signet ring raps against a wine goblet. ‘Gentlemen,’ the host announces, ‘may I introduce you to our new neighbour from No. 9.’ The Rt Hon. Thomas Carter steps forward: ‘“An able and intriguing man, of slender reputation for integrity”, Thomas Carter was one of Henrietta Street’s earliest … Read more