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
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
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