The role of education in museums, arts and heritage venues

The role of education in museums, arts and heritage venues (1998) ISBN 0903162962 The nature of the education service in museums, arts and heritage venues (1999) ISBN 0903162997 The museum […]

Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin labour movement

Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin labour movement John Newsinger (Merlin Press, £14.95) ISBN 085036518X   Early twentieth-century Ireland witnessed massive labour unrest. John Newsinger’s book is a sympathetic […]

Left to the wolves: Irish victims of Stalinist terror

Left to the wolves: Irish victims of Stalinist terror Barry McLoughlin (Irish Academic Press, hb e57.50, pb e29.50) ISBN 9780716529149, 9780716529157 One of the things the Soviets did well was […]

A New History of Ireland VII, Ireland 1921–1984

A New History of Ireland VII, Ireland 1921–1984 J.R. HILL (ed.) (Oxford University Press, £125) ISBN 0198217528   In 1962 the New History of Ireland (NHI) was first conceived. Seán […]

Bookworm

Not since Karl Marx planned to write a short pamphlet on the nature of capital, which eventually became his multi-volume opus, has a publication project expanded so spectacularly. Billy Colfer’s […]