Local Government in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Virginia Crossman (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast £4.95)

Over the past three decades historians have documented fully the rise and successful mobilisation of Irish national consciousness during the nineteenth century and the subsequent establishment of the Irish Free […]

Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945, Paul M. Kerrigan (Collins Press, £24.95)

‘Power’, as Mao Zse-tung observed, ‘comes from the barrel of a gun’. His aphorism is true in the most literal sense of early modern Europe where the introduction of gunpowder […]

The Path to Freedom: Articles and speeches, by Michael Collins (Mercier Press, £6.99)

The contemporary Irish interest in the reprinting of Michael Collins’ notes of August 1922 was not lost on Mercier Press. On the back of their book are Collins’ remarks about […]

Irish explorers

Tom Crean was born in 1877 in Annascaul, County Kerry. At the age oftwenty he ran away from home and by 1901 he was serving as naval seamanin the New […]

Saint Patrick statue

At the last annual general meeting of the Federation of Local HistorySocieties, Rathfeigh Historical Society reported on the possiblereplacement of a statue of Saint Patrick on the Hill of Tara. […]