IRISH ARTISAN AND RADICAL POLITICS, 1776–1820: APPRENTICESHIP TO REVOLUTION

TIMOTHY MURTAGH Liverpool University Press £95 ISBN 97810802077148 Reviewed by Jim Smyth Jim Smyth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. Irish society and economy in the period 1776–1820 were, of course, overwhelmingly rural, and historians have duly reflected those past realities. By comparison, however, Irish urban history has until fairly recently received … Read more

IRELAND AND THE CRUSADES

EDWARD COLEMAN, PAUL DUFFY and TADHG O’KEEFFE (eds) Four Courts Press €44 ISBN 9781846828614 Reviewed by Grace O’Keeffe  Grace O’Keeffe is History Ireland’s online editor. Edward Coleman opens this volume with a historiographical examination of scholarship on Ireland’s involvement in the crusades, a relatively small field of study. The most obvious reason for this is … Read more