RONAN McGREEVY and EMER PURCELL (eds) Four Courts Press €30 ISBN 9780901510990 REVIEWED BY Thomas O’Loughlin Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. This book owes its publication to the Decade of Centenaries and needs to be understood in that context: it is both a commemoration today, which is … Read more
GERARD SHANNON Irish Academic Press €19.99 ISBN 9781785375842 REVIEWED BY Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is professor emeritus, DCU, and author of Myths and lies of ‘the Irish Revolution’ (Eastwood, 2025). This is a satisfying read, not least because of its measured prose and sense of fairness. It was never going to be easy to strike … Read more
RICHARD MAHER Pen and Sword £25 ISBN 9781036134099 REVIEWED BY Stephen Griffin Stephen Griffin formerly lectured in History at the University of Limerick and is currently employed by Limerick Civic Trust. The life and activities of Sir Charles Wogan will be familiar to anyone knowledgeable on the Irish diaspora in eighteenth-century Europe. Yet for all … Read more
PÁDRAIG LENIHAN Four Courts Press €40 ISBN 9781801511728 REVIEWED BY Chris Doyle Chris Doyle is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Galway. Ireland was torn asunder by violent conflict between the years 1641 and 1653. This prolonged era of war is known variously as the Cromwellian Conquest, the English Civil War, the Confederate … Read more
DERMOT KEOGH, OWEN McGEE and MERVYN O’DRISCOLL (eds) Cork University Press €49 ISBN 9781782050599 Reviewed by Brian Hanley The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi has argued that key to understanding the impact that Irish republicans made between 1919 and 1921 is that they ‘were led by people with a sophisticated understanding of the global balance of … Read more