Belfast Boys: how Unionists and Nationalists fought and died together in the First World War

Richard S. Grayson (Continuum Books, £25) ISBN 9781847250087   Richard Grayson’s Belfast Boys is the latest addition to a small but growing number of popular and academic books on the […]

Judging Lemass: the measure of the man

Tom Garvin (Royal Irish Academy, E30) ISBN 9781904890577   Tom Garvin opens his introduction to this book with the truthful statement that ‘Seán Lemass is commonly seen as the architect […]

England and the 1641 Irish rebellion

Cope (Boydell Press, £50) ISBN 9781843834687   The outbreak of the 1641 rebellion posed two related problems for the English administration in Ireland. First and foremost, the lords justices and […]

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 […]