CONOR McCABE (ed.) Iskra Books €21.99 ISBN 9798330435210 REVIEWED BY Emmet O’Connor Emmet O’Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Ulster University. With over 1,000 publications on James Connolly, including a number of editions of ‘collected works’, one might think that his writings had been excavated exhaustively. Not … Read more
ROBERT BARTLETT Cambridge University Press £20 ISBN 9781009457156 REVIEWED BY Murray Smith Murray Smith is a barrister and history graduate of University College Dublin. Robert Bartlett, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, shows his skill and experience in this short but pithy book. He points out that ‘The past is … Read more
IAN GENTLES Bloomsbury Academic £28.99 ISBN 9781350375864 REVIEWED BY John Morrill John Morrill is Emeritus Professor of British and Irish History, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Hon. Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. This is a modestly revised version of a biography first published in 2011. Ian Gentles is a Canadian who wrote a Ph.D in London … Read more
SEÁN Ó HOIREABHÁRD Liverpool University Press £125 ISBN 9781835538449 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. It is no exaggeration to say that a significant body of work has been completed on the origins, course and impact of the English invasions of Ireland in the … Read more
MÁRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE and DOROTHY CASHMAN (eds) Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with EUt+ Academic Press €45 ISBN 9781900454827 REVIEWED BY Claire Connolly In 1969 two French food critics penned a guidebook—the Guide Juillard de l’Irlande—in which they shared some good news. Things were getting better in Irish kitchens. The sting in the tail, … Read more