Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660 -1760. S. J. Connolly (1:1)

This is an extremely well-organised and comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Writing in a crisp, precise style, Connolly takes a thematic approach so that each chapter stands on its […]

The Great Melody: a thematic biography and commented anthology of Edmund Burke.Conor Cruise O’Brien (1:1)

Experimentation in historical writing and methodology in order to make it accessible and meaningful to a general readership is once again fashionable. The virtues of narration, imaginative reconstruction based partly […]

The Northern Ireland Political Collection at the Linen Hall Library (1:1)

Robert Bell In the cramped quarters of the attic of Belfast’s historic Linen Hall Library, a collection of 50,000 items of printed material about the current Northern Ireland troubles is […]

Women and the Contagious Diseases Acts 1864-1886 (1:1)

Maria Luddy The obsessive fear of venereal disease in the Victorian period has been likened to the dread occasioned by AIDS today. The ravages of these diseases were seen in […]

The Geography of Hurling (1:1)

Kevin Whelan Why is hurling currently popular in a compact region centred on east Munster and south Leinster, and in isolated pockets in the Glens of Antrim and in the […]