MIKE HENNESSY Thirsty Books £25 ISBN 9781739318185 Reviewed by Niall Whelehan Niall Whelehan is a historian and part of the Modern Irish History group at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. When football and the history of Irish migration to Scotland are mentioned, most minds would turn to Celtic FC, the Glasgow club with the global … Read more
LINDEN MACINTYRE Irish Academic Press €19.99 ISBN 9781785375750 Reviewed by Eamonn Gardiner Eamonn Gardiner tutors in History at the University of Galway. Language is important—or, rather, how we use language. The correct punctuation can exert profound change on how a sentence is interpreted, how a question is phrased, how meaning is subtly altered. Reading Linden … Read more
KIERAN KEENAGHAN and JAMES SCULLY Offaly History €20 ISBN 9781909822429 Reviewed by Eileen Casey Eileen Casey is a poet, fiction writer and journalist. Co-authored by local historians Kieran Keenaghan and James Scully (recipient of a Heritage Hero Award), this handsome full-colour edition addresses any lingering doubts or questions about an expression in spoken usage for … Read more
JOSEPH BRADY and PAUL FERGUSON Birlinn £30 ISBN 9781780279640 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. Books involving mapping can invariably be located on a simple grid of two axes. On the horizonal axis there are the notional extremes of the history of cartography—i.e. the … Read more
PATRICK GLEESONFour Courts Press€45 ISBN 9781801511650 Reviewed bySimon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast. The study of medieval Irish kingship and society is undergoing something of a renaissance. The last few years alone have witnessed the production of some truly excellent work: Katharine Simms’s Gaelic Ulster in … Read more