David C. Hanrahan (Sutton Publishing, £20) ISBN 0750933275 Thomas Blood was born in County Clare around 1618, but he spent his early years in England until 1648, when he returned […]
Read More →David Edwards (Four Courts, £45) ISBN 185182578 This is the book many historians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been waiting for—a thorough, detailed and well-researched analysis of […]
Read More →Making the best use of a relatively small exhibition space, Conflict contains hundreds of artefacts from the Neolithic period to the present. The visual aspect of the exhibition is most […]
Read More →History Ireland, since it was first published over a decade ago, has sought to address as many aspects of Ireland’s past and its interpretation as possible. The review of at […]
Read More →Brenan, John (1768–1830), physician and satirist, was born into a minor landed Catholic family from Ballaghide, Co. Carlow. The details of his early life are hazy, but from about 1801 […]
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