DIARMAID FERRITER Profile Books £25 ISBN 9781800810945 REVIEWED BY Brian Girvin Brian Girvin is Honorary Professor of Contemporary Politics at the University of Glasgow. Most people reading Diarmaid Ferriter’s new book will have encountered at least some of the incidents and controversies detailed here but will have done so from very different perspectives. The one … Read more
MAURICE J. CASEY Footnote Press £15 ISBN 9781804441183 REVIEWED BY Brian Trench Brian Trench is a former lecturer in the School of Communications, DCU. By the mid-1920s, as communist ambitions shrank to socialism in one country, the role of the Comintern, became primarily that of defending the Soviet Union. In this context, leading figures in … Read more
NIAMH HOWLIN (ed.) Four Courts Press€55ISBN 9781801511377 REVIEWED BYJames K. Meighan James K. Meighan is a solicitor and holds a Ph.D from the University of Limerick. This book has been published by the Irish Legal History Society to celebrate the centenary of the original architecture of the modern Irish judiciary. The Courts of Justice Act … Read more
PERRY ANDERSON Verso £30 ISBN 9781804297674 REVIEWED BY Eoin Dilllon Eoin Dillon is an independent scholar. Disputing disaster is Perry Anderson’s account of six historians of the First World War: Frenchman Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), Italian Luigi Albertini (1871–1941), German Fritz Fischer (1908–99), Englishman Keith Wilson (1944–2018), Australian Christopher Clark (1960–) and American Paul Schroeder (1927–2020). … Read more
HELENE O’KEEFFE, JOHN CROWLEY, DONAL O’DRISCEOIL, JOHN BORGONOVO and MIKE MURPHY (eds) Cork University Press €69 ISBN 9781782055921 REVIEWED BY Charles Lysaght Nobody in nationalist Ireland felt proud of the Civil War that followed hard upon independence in 1922. Unlike the War of Independence, it produced no heroes. Neither side could be happy with its … Read more