History Man: the life of R. G. Collingwood

History Man: the life of R. G. Collingwood Fred Inglis (Princeton University Press, Ä33.55) IBSN 9780691130149   Robin George Collingwood was born on 22 February 1889 in the English Lake […]

Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s phoney neutrality during World War II

Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s phoney neutrality during World War II T. Ryle Dwyer (Gill and Macmillan, €25) ISBN 9780717146383   The reasons for Irish neutrality during the Second World […]

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960 Olwen Purdue (University College Dublin Press, Ä60hb/Ä28pb) ISBN 9781906359218 hb, 9781906359256 pb     Singing of […]

A history of the media in Ireland

A history of the media in Ireland Christopher Morash (Cambridge University Press, £45) ISBN 9780521843928   The Revd Alexander R. C. Dallas was convinced that the second coming of Christ […]

Michael Collins and the making of a new Ireland (2 vols)

Michael Collins and the making of a new Ireland (2 vols) Piaras Béaslaí (Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, Ä95) ISBN 9780946130436   First of all, congratulations are in […]