Reviews

The People’s Rising: Wexford 1798 Daniel Gahan (Gill and Macmillan, £12.99) The Mighty Wave: the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford Dáire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong (eds.) (Four Courts, £9.99) Sir Richard Musgrave’s Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion of 179

The people’s rising: Wexford 1798, Daniel Gahan (Gill and MacMillan, £ 12.99). The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (eds) Dáire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong (Four Courts, £9.99). Sir Richard Musgrave’s memoirs of the Irish rebellion of 1798 (eds) S.W. Myers & D.E. McKnight (Round Tower Books, £35). The summer soldiers: 1798 rebellion in … Read more

Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power: The making of the British State Steven G. Ellis (Clarendon Press, 1995, £35) /The Problem of Ireland in Tudor Foreign Policy 1485-1603 William Palmer (Boydell Press, 1994, £29.50)

Reviewed by Vincent Carey Gone are the days when English historians ignored the question of British involvement in Ireland in the early modern period. When considered at all, the traditional narrative tended to trivialise the Irish experience and minimalise its impact on the grand sweep of English history. An example of this tendency is found … Read more

The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago, Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill (eds.), (MacMillan £42.50 hb, £13.50 pb). Uniting the Kingdom?: The Making of British history, Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer (eds

The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: state formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (eds) Brendan Bradshaw & John Morrill (MacMillan £42.5 hb, £13.50 pb). Uniting the Kingdom?: the making of British history (eds) Alexander Grant & Keith J. Stringer (Routledge, £25 hb).  Religion and political culture in Britain and Ireland: from the Glorious Revolution to the decline of … Read more