Book Review: Kilmichael: the life and afterlife of an ambush
By Eve Morrison, Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781788551458 Reviewer: Jack Hepworth Commemorating the west Cork IRA ambush of …
Book Review: Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland 1918-1923
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a study of …
Book Review: Kevin Barry, An Irish Rebel in Life and Death
By Eunan O’Halpin Published by Merrion Press, 2020 Reviewer: John Dorney Kevin Barry, aged 18, was hanged in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin …
Book Review: Art, Ireland & The Irish Diaspora: Chicago, Dublin, New York 1893-1939, Culture, Connections and Controversies
By Eimear O’Connor Published by: Irish Academic Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare Reviewer: Patricia Curtin Kelly In her latest book, art historian Eimear …
Reflecting on The Civil War in Dublin
John Dorney on his new book The Civil War in Dublin the Fight for the Irish capital. Joseph Conrad began his famous …
Book Review: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85
Title: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85 Author: Pat Finnegan ISBN: 978-1-84682-359-6 Price: €35.00 HB | …
Book Review: ‘What Else Could I Do?’
Infanticide can be a measure of other aspects of society, it can point to attitudes towards illegitimacy, sex, poverty, birth control, women’s rights and protection of infant life … Rattigan has written a very informative book on a part of Irish history, which serves to reveal much about the complex nature of Irish conservatism.