Rebellions: memoir, memory and 1798

Tom Dunne (Lilliput Press, 320) ISBN 1843510391 In this ambitious and often deeply personal book, Tom Dunne offers his own perspective on Irish history, on the process of historical commemoration […]

Harry Boland’s Irish revolution

David Fitzpatrick (Cork University Press, 335) ISBN 1859182224   In writing this biography at the request of Harry’s nephew and namesake Annraoi Ó Beolláin, David Fitzpatrick declared his objective to […]

A new anatomy of Ireland: the Irish Protestants, 1649–1770

Toby Barnard (Yale University Press, 344.40) ISBN 0300096690 Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641–1770 Toby Barnard (Four Courts Press, 355) ISBN 1851826939   The preface of A new anatomy of […]

The Battle of Kinsale

Hiram Morgan (ed.) (Wordwell Books, 335) ISBN    1869857704 This book, consisting of 21 chapters and 10 appendices by 20 authors, is the product of a winter school held in Kinsale […]

W.B. Yeats: a life. Volume II: The arch-poet 1915-1939

R.F. Foster (Oxford University Press, 344.40) ISBN 0198184654   W.B. Yeats: vain, glorious, lout: a maker of modern Ireland Anthony J. Jordan (Westport Books, 313) ISBN 0952444720   ‘The work […]