Book Reviews

NICHOLAS CANNY Oxford University Press £90 ISBN 9780198808961 Reviewed by John Gibney This book arose, as its author admits in the very first line, ‘by accident rather than design’. Nicholas Canny is one of the small group of historians who revolutionised the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland from the 1960s onwards. His work was … Read more

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the cover story of our previous edition, Laurence Geary explained that vaccination in Ireland is often said to have begun in Cork in 1800 when a local physician treated 300 children against smallpox. How appropriate, then, that Cork again features as ground zero in Strangling angel: diphtheria and childhood immunization … Read more