The Scotch-Irish: from the north of Ireland to the making of America Ron Chepesiuk (McFarland & Co., North Carolina, £17.95) 0786422734 To buy or not to buy? This is the […]
Read More →Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: a political soldier Keith Jeffrey (Oxford University Press, £40, €57) ISBN 9780198203582Sir Henry Wilson has not been treated well by historians. As a soldier, he […]
Read More →Emergency Law in Ireland 1922–1948 Seosamh Ó Longaigh (Four Courts Press, €55) ISBN 9781851829224 The last years of British government in Ireland, 1916–21, saw the use of extraordinary legislation and […]
Read More →The Orange Order: a tradition betrayed Brian Kennaway (Methuen, £15.99, ?23.25) ISBN 0 413 77535 6 The author of this work has been an Orangeman for over 40 years and […]
Read More →In our very first offering (HI 12.1, Spring 2004) Bookworm lavished particular praise on Peter Carr’s Portavo: an Irish townland and its peoples. But that was only Part One of […]
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