By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr There was a small press at Count Plunkett’s home of Larkfield, Kimmage, on which it is said that the ‘Castle Document’ was printed on 13 […]
Read More →KEN McGOOGAN HarperCollins $29.99 ISBN 9781443425506 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Celtic lightning ends with a beginning. Author Ken McGoogan describes how, in 1863, two political opponents joined forces with a […]
Read More →DEIRDRE RAFTERY and KARIN FISCHER (eds) Irish Academic Press €22.45 ISBN 9780716532446 Reviewed by Colm Mac Gearailt This book is not a survey of the education system as it progressed […]
Read More →GREGORY A. SCHIRMER Lilliput Press €40 ISBN 9781843516392 Reviewed by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha Brian Merriman’s poem Cúirt an Mheon-Oíche, composed in or around 1780, is often described as the best […]
Read More →Owen McGee Merrion Press €25.19 ISBN 9781785370090 Reviewed by Patrick Maume This fascinating and exasperating book attempts two tasks: to produce a professional study of Arthur Griffith—filling one of the […]
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