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
FINNIAN Ó CIONNAITH Four Courts Press €35 ISBN 9781801511223 REVIEWED BY Patrick J. Duffy Patrick J. Duffy is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Maynooth University. This year marks two centuries of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Finnian Ó Cionnaith, a qualified land surveyor and historian, focuses on the fast-moving origins of the Irish survey from … Read more
ELVA JOHNSTON, PETER CROOKS and TIMOTHY MURTAGH (eds) Irish Manuscripts Commission €30 ISBN 9781906865948 Reviewed by Catriona Crowe The Public Record Office, built in 1867 as Ireland’s official archival repository for the records of the state, was a major casualty of the Battle of the Four Courts in June 1922 at the start of the … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald September marked the 85th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War, as good a time as any to read Clodagh Finn and John Morgan’s The Irish in the Resistance: the untold stories of the ordinary heroes who resisted Hitler. While the activities of famous … Read more
NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND (UNTIL JANUARY 2025) By Donal Fallon Despite being something of a lapsed Roman Catholic, I spend a considerable amount of time visiting churches. At St Joseph’s in Terenure, the stained-glass windows by the Harry Clarke Studios have inspired a history by Patricia Curtin-Kelly. A visit to Dún Laoghaire offers a chance … Read more