COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Release of prisoners, Christmas 1916

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Rising had hardly been the work of a massive conspiracy, but the British acted as if it were. British security forces arrested 3,430 Irish […]

More than concrete blocks: Dublin city’s twentieth-century buildings and their stories, volume I, 1900–40

ELLEN ROWLEY (ed.) Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press/University College Dublin €22.45 ISBN 9781902703442 Reviewed by: Mary Davies The population of Dublin city grew from just under 300,000 in 1900 to […]

Grave matters: death and dying in Dublin 1500 to the present

LISA MARIE GRIFFITH and CIARÁN WALLACE (eds) Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781846826016 Reviewed by: Conor Dodd This publication originated at a conference of the same name that was organised […]

Enigmas of sacrifice: a critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916

W.J. McCORMACK Michigan State University Press $29.95 ISBN 9781611861914 Reviewed by: Eoin Dillon After reading W.J. (Bill) McCormack’s account of intellectual life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and Britain, the […]

Art of the islands: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking visual culture c. 450–1050

MICHELLE P. BROWN Bodleian Library £25 ISBN 9781851244461 Reviewed by: Peter Harbison The very first page of the Introduction of this book points out rightly that this is the first […]