THE BBC’S ‘IRISH TROUBLES’: TELEVISION, CONFLICT AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Reviewed by Niall Meehan Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College, Dublin. Robert Savage has written a richly detailed history of the BBC’s ‘Irish Troubles’, a story […]

STEP DANCING IN IRELAND: CULTURE AND HISTORY

Reviewed by Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain A course director at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. For many years dance scholarship has been considered […]

THE WEST MUST WAIT: COUNTY GALWAY AND THE IRISH FREE STATE, 1922–32

Reviewed by Conor McNamara The 1916 Scholar in Residence at NUI Galway. Galway is a peculiar place—both an urban and a rural county, a congested district and a Gaeltacht region, […]

THE TUDOR DISCOVERY OF IRELAND

Reviewed by David Heffernan Has a volume of 70 ‘reform’ treatises on Tudor Ireland forthcoming from the Irish Manuscripts Commission. By the late fifteenth century English power in Ireland had […]

THE SCHAFFHAUSEN ADOMNÁN

Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. For over a century and a half one manuscript has held a unique fascination for every serious […]