Hiram Morgan lectures in history at University College Cork; Éamonn Ó Ciaradha lectures in history at the Keough Institute of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame; Roy Johnston is an applied-scientific consultant: Johnny Connolly is a Dublin criminologist; Fearghal McGarry is a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at NUI, Maynooth.
The Easter Rising Michael Foy and Brian Barton (Sutton Publishing, £14.99) ISBN 0750926163 Considering its importance in modern Irish history, remarkably few scholarly books have been written on the Easter Rising. Michael Foy and Brian Barton’s welcome book, The Easter Rising, is the first in over a generation and meets a long overdue demand by … Read more
Tim Carey (Collins Press) ISBN 1898256896 Entering Mountjoy jail in 1997, having spent two years researching its history for this book, the author sought to ‘step back in time’ so as to make a connection with Mountjoy’s nineteenth-century past. Peering through the spy hole of a cell in the basement of B wing, one of … Read more
Norman McMillan (Tyndall Publications, £24 pb, £42 hb) ISBN 0952597403, pb/hb ISBN? In his first encounter with Trinity College, Dublin, in 1971 the author was shown around the Physics Department, and in passing his attention was drawn to a heap of old notebooks, which he was told belonged to George Francis Fitzgerald, but it seemed … Read more
James Kelly (Four Courts Press) ISBN 1851826114 In editing sixty-two broadside gallows speeches from eighteenth century Ireland James Kelly finds himself in the company of another prolific commentator on eighteenth-century Ireland. According to the nineteenth-century antiquarian Thomas Crofton-Croker, Jonathan Swift collected and annotated printed dying speeches of Irish victims. The history of crime and punishment … Read more