BRIAN HUGHES Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781801511193 Reviewed by Niall Quinn Niall Quinn is a former international footballer with an MA in History from Dublin City University. I’m 58. When I was in school, history was like a bowl of porridge slapped down at breakfast. It wasn’t meant to be nice; it was good … Read more
TIMOTHY O’NEILL Royal Irish Academy €18 ISBN 9781802050240 Reviewed by Dermot McGuinne Dermot McGuinne is the retired Head of the Departments of Fine Art and of Visual Communication Design at the Technological University of Dublin. This is a book that will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the history of the work of … Read more
NICHOLAS K. ROBINSON Four Courts Press €36 ISBN 9781801511353 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman In the late 1700s, élites in salons or smoking-rooms, or anyone gazing into the windows of bookshops and print-sellers in London or Dublin, consumed and experienced satirical cartoons. This was the golden age of English caricature, and increasingly elaborate and richly coloured … Read more
JOHN O’BEIRNE RANELAGH Irish Academic Press €29.99 ISBN 9781785374944 Reviewed by Owen McGee Seven appendices and four chapters of this book are devoted to IRB constitutions. Tables of the IRB’s (minimal) resources could have told far more. Draft IRB constitutions from 1922–3, which the author discovered and made the basis of a 1976 journal article, … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald The O’Brien Press celebrated its 50th anniversary in November 2024, and to mark the occasion it released a new edition of its first publication, Éamonn MacThomáis’s classic Me jewel and darlin’ Dublin. While the book, I am sure, occupies a special place on many readers’ shelves, this edition offers much to the … Read more