RICHARD BOURKE and NIAMH GALLAGHER (eds) Cambridge University Press £22.99 ISBN 9781108799133 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. ‘When we were little children Johnnie Redmond was a fool, He bade us to be happy with something called Home Rule, But we’ve learned a thing … Read more
JOHN T. McGREEVY W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 9781324003885 €35 Reviewed by Gerard O’Sullivan Gerard O’Sullivan is a surveyor and a non-practising barrister. As an Irish Catholic, I grew up in an era steeped in traditional religious ritual where clerical authority was unquestioned, and witnessed in my teens the effect on Irish life of the ‘reformation’ … Read more
EOIN KINSELLA Four Courts Press in association with the Irish Defence Forces ISBN 9781801510363 €30 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. ‘The history of the Defence Forces can be characterised as an ongoing search for a defined shape and mission’ (p. 249). So, in … Read more
PETER CROOKS and THOMAS MOHR (eds) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846827402 Reviewed by James Meighan James Meighan is a solicitor and a Ph.D candidate at the University of Limerick. The editors open this book with a reference to the address of President Michael D. Higgins to the joint houses of parliament in Westminster in … Read more
Vol. 2 (of 3), 1 February 1649–12 December 1653 ELAINE MURPHY, MICHEÁL Ó SIOCHRÚ and JASON PEACEY (eds) Oxford University Press £190 per volume, £570 for the set of three ISBN 9780199587896 Reviewed by Jane Ohlmeyer Oliver Cromwell’s statue enjoys pride of place outside the House of Commons at Westminster in London. In 2002 the … Read more