PÁDRAIG ÓG Ó RUAIRC Head of Zeus £16.99 ISBN 9781035915279 REVIEWED BY Martin Mansergh Martin Mansergh is Vice-President of the Irish Association of Former Parliamentarians. In an era when, worldwide, heightened polemics are employed to gain and perpetuate the holding of power, this is a timely review of the situation in Ireland. The subtitle posits … Read more
LIN ROSE CLARK Lilliput Press €18.95 ISBN 978184351-9218 REVIEWED BY Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century Irish History in Trinity College, Dublin. In the epilogue to this book, Lin Rose Clark tells of a postcard that her grandfather, Robert Hilliard, had sent to her grandmother, Rosemary. Hilliard had sent it from Spain, … Read more
DAMIAN SHIELS LSU Press $50 ISBN 9780807183700 REVIEWED BY Daniel Mulhall Daniel Mulhall is a former Irish ambassador to the USA whose latest publication is Pilgrim soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of his time (New Island Books, 2023). The American Civil War was a hinge in US history, dividing the staider antebellum period from … Read more
CHRISTOPHER CLARK Penguin Books £18.99 ISBN 9780141988313 REVIEWED BY Eoin Dillon Eoin Dillon is an independent scholar. Europe erupted in 1848. Starting in Palermo in January, an unplanned but deeply rooted and popular revolt broke out, and royal reinforcements, sent from the mainland, where liberal and radical forces had also asserted themselves, failed to retake … Read more