Bristol’s trade with Ireland and the Continent 1503–1601: the evidence of the exchequer customs accounts

Susan Flavin and Evan T. Jones (eds) (Four Courts Press, E65) ISBN 9781846821820   This 1,094-page tome reproduces the details of the cargoes of ships plying between Ireland and the […]

The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party

Brian Hanley and Scott Millar (Penguin Ireland, €20) ISBN 9781844881208   The front page of the September 1971 Official Republican paper The United Irishman displayed a photograph of a gunman […]

Bookworm

According to the foreword by Kevin Myers to The Wexford war dead: a history of the casualties of the World Wars (Nonsuch Publishing, 336pp, Ä20, ISBN 9781845889647), compiled by Tom […]

Museum eye

Manx Museum/Thie Tashtee Vannin Kingswood Grove, Douglas, Isle of Man www.storyofmann.com, enquiries@mnh.gov.im, +44 (0)1624 648000 Mon.–Sat. 10am–5pm by Tony Canavan   Even the first-time Irish visitor to the Isle of […]

Tv eye

Rapairí Scun Scan Productions Six-part series, Nov.–Dec. 2009, TG4 by John Gibney   Rapairí set itself the task of examining the lives of six ‘outlaws’ active in Ireland from the […]