The Catholic priesthood can be seen as exemplifying ‘traditional’ leadership where authority derives from a social role irrespective of the individual involved; but there have always been priests who developed a more individualistic approach, even if this precipitated conflict with church or state authorities. These essays describe nine Irish Catholic priests, each marked out by … Read more
Apart from the postscript, which in my view is the weakest section of the book owing to its pious, unctuous and preaching tone, Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, was written by Brewer who generously acknowledges Higgins’s collaboration as research assistance by declaring co-authorship of the work. Brewer and Higgins maintain that anti-Catholicism in the North of … Read more
Although about the making of Britain, this volume also has a disproportionately large Irish content, reflecting the growing interest among Irish historians in viewing Ireland’s ties with England, Scotland, and Wales in a comparative, British context. Yet the volume’s contents also expose the latent tensions in Irish historical circles between writers of conventional history and … Read more
The University of Limerick History Society intends to publish itssecond journal of history in 2000. The journal—History Studies—iscommitted to publish the best undergraduate and postgraduate work inthe field of history. The editors invite third-level students who havean interest in history to contribute (5,000 words, deadline 30 November1999). A Detailed ‘style sheet’ and further information from: … Read more
In the Kenneth Nicholls’ article, ‘Worlds Apart?: the Ellis Two-NationTheory on Late Medieval Ireland’, in the last issue an extraneous ‘and’(not the author’s) garbled the meaning of the last complete sentence atthe bottom of page 24 (third column). It should have read: When in 1519 and 1520 Lord Barry sells an exemption from the exactionswhich … Read more