Charles Doherty lectures in early Irish history at University College Dublin; Dermot Keogh is professor history at University College Cork Neil Fleming is a research student at the Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast; Terence McCaughey lectures in Scots Gaelic at Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor Finlay Holmes has put us in his debt once again by telling the often very complex story of Irish Presbyterianism in a narrative which is itself a model of clarity. In this book he returns to some themes which he has treated of before in articles in learned journals but which the general reader … Read more
Michael McGrath traces the costly financial implications of the voluntary Catholic sector from the early years through to the last decade of the twentieth century. He shows how education had always received financial assistance from the Catholic community, unlike contemporary Protestants, long before the creation of Northern Ireland. His story is a testament to the … Read more
History of the Diocese of Derry, Henry A. Jefferies and Ciaran Devlin (Four Courts Press, hardback £19.95) ISBN 18512824901 Religious Renewal and Reform in the Pastoral Ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Lieghlin, 1786-1834 ,Thomas McGrath (Four Courts Press, £35) ISBN 1851823719 Politics, Interdenominational Relations and Education in the Public Ministry of Bishop … Read more
The Life of St Patrick and his Place in History, J.B. Bury, (Dover Publications, £12.95) ISBN 0486400379 John Bagnell Bury was born in 1861 in County Monaghan and died in Rome in 1927. He was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, Edward John Bury, rector of Clontibret. He was educated at Foyle College … Read more