UNITED KINGDOMS: MULTINATIONAL UNION STATES IN EUROPE AND BEYOND, 1800–1925

ALVIN JACKSONOxford University Press£35ISBN 9780192883742 REVIEWED BYBrian Girvin Brian Girvin is Honorary Professor of Contemporary Politics at the University of Glasgow. In 2007, the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland passed by largely unnoticed. Public and political focus over the following years was on threats to the union rather than … Read more

JOHN REDMOND AND IRISH PARLIAMENTARY TRADITIONS

MARTIN O’DONOGHUE and EMER PURCELL (eds)UCD Press€30ISBN 9781739086305 REVIEWED BYDermot Meleady Dermot Meleady is the author of John Redmond: the national leader (Merrion Press, 2013) and Redmond: the Parnellite (Cork University Press, 2008). In Redmond’s long campaign for Home Rule, the pivotal moment was November 1909, when the UK Liberal government clashed head-on with the … Read more

MAPPING SOUTH KERRY: 450 YEARS OF A CHANGING LANDSCAPE

ARNOLD HORNERWordwell€55ISBN 9781913934712 REVIEWED BYThomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at Nottingham University. Every map depends on a seemingly simple but necessary assumption: that it pictures reality—that is to say, that in a visual image we, who are viewing it, are seeing reality through it. It is easy to exemplify this: … Read more