Travellers’ accounts as source-materials for Irish historians Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History C. J. Woods (Four Courts Press, €24.95) ISBN 9781846821325 Here’s Ireland! Be it rambles in […]
Read More →Martial power and Elizabethan political culture: military men in England and Ireland, 1558–1594 Rory Rapple (Cambridge University Press, £60) ISBN 9780521843539 An enduring symbol of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘Merry England’ […]
Read More →It is deliciously ironic that a book that takes us to task for creating a ‘liberation myth’ with regard to the War of Independence should have on its front cover […]
Read More →John Minahane has provided a clear and comprehensive translation of Disputatio Apologetica de jure Regni Hiberniae, which made the first full statement for Irish separatism. It was made after the […]
Read More →Remember the furore a few years back when Minister for Education Mary Hanafin decreed that every school in the state receive, at taxpayers’ expense, a copy of the Royal Irish […]
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