TOM GARVIN Irish Academic Press €22.50 ISBN 9781911024224 Reviewed by: Thomas O’Loughlin It is the common destiny of most scholars, and certainly those who describe themselves as medievalists, to survive […]
Read More →TIMOTHY EGAN Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $28 ISBN 9780544272880 Reviewed by: Dean Jobb Thomas Francis Meagher should have died in 1849, at the age of 25. A leader of the failed […]
Read More →MARTIN BROWN OSB and COLMÁN Ó CLABAIGH OSB (eds) Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846825729 Reviewed by: Peter Harbison Over the years, and through documentary sources, we have been hearing […]
Read More →By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Frongoch internment camp was located in a former whiskey distillery in Merionethshire, Wales. Until 1916 it housed German prisoners of war in the disused distillery […]
Read More →ROBERT SCHMUHL Oxford University Press £19.99 ISBN 9780190224288 Reviewed by: John Gibney One of the most quoted phrases of the 1916 Proclamation comes in the second paragraph, in which its […]
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