THE LETTERS AND CHARTERS OF HENRY II, KING OF ENGLAND 1154–1189, VOLS 1–6

NICHOLAS VINCENT (ed.) Oxford University Press £95 per hardback volume ISBN 9780198738213 Reviewed by Jesse Harrington This new series provides a complete edition of the letters and charters of Henry […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls We have mentioned here before the new literary genre of ‘biography of a year’. Now the Royal Irish Academy has got in on the act with […]

KITSON’S IRISH WAR: MASTERMIND OF THE DIRTY WAR IN IRELAND

DAVID BURKE Mercier Press £14.99 ISBN 9781781177983 Reviewed by Ian S. Wood Ian S. Wood is co-author (with Andrew Sanders) of Times of Troubles: Britain’s war in Northern Ireland (2012) […]

FAKE NEWS AND THE IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

MICHAEL B. BARRY Andalus Press €15.99 ISBN 9780993355486 Reviewed by Maurice Walsh Maurice Walsh is the author of Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015). […]

IRISH LONDON: A CULTURAL HISTORY 1850–1916

RICHARD KIRKLAND Bloomsbury £85 ISBN 9781350133181 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. In his contribution to Glór Ulladh 1893–1943, the Belfast singer and […]