Confederate Ireland, 1642-49: a constitutional and political analysis, Mícheál Ó Siochrú. (Four Courts Press, £35) ISBN 1851824006
This is a remarkable debut performance. First monographs by the likes of Aidan Clarke (The Old English in Ireland), Brendan Bradshaw (The Dissolution of the Monasteries), Nicholas Canny (The Elizabethan Conquest) immediately spring to mind but in fact Ó Siochrú’s achievement is all the greater because his subject is of central importance in Ireland’s constitutional … Read more