Female activists: Irish women and change 1900–1960

Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy (eds) (Woodfield Press, €18.50) ISBN 095342930X Since the 1980s, historians of women in Ireland have focused largely on the early years of the twentieth century […]

George Russell and the new Ireland, 1905–30

Nicholas Allen (Four Courts Press, E45) ISBN 18518269 George Russell (Æ) is an elusive figure. He is acknowledged as one of the great names of the Irish Literary Revival, but […]

The IRA 1926–1936

Brian Hanley (Four Courts Press, ™29.95) ISBN 1851827218 This is the most important study of the IRA to be published in recent years. It is based on a treasure trove […]

The Stuart kingdoms in the seventeenth century: awkward neighbours

Allan I. MacInnes and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds). (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002, E55.) ISBN 1851825320 ‘British’ history tends to come in books of essays. The notion that the kingdoms of […]

Robert Lynd: essayist and Irishman

Robert Lynd, son of a moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, was born in North Belfast on 20 April 1879. When he died in October […]