Volume 29

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