REMEMBERING THE TROUBLES Contesting the recent past in Northern Ireland

JIM SMYTH (ed.) University of Notre Dame Press $40 ISBN 9780268101749 Reviewed by: Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is an Irish History Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. This book […]

BOMBS, BULLETS AND THE BORDER Policing Ireland’s frontier: Irish security policy, 1969–1978

PATRICK MULROE Irish Academic Press €24.99 ISBN 9781911024521 Reviewed by: Deaglán de Bréadún Deaglán de Bréadún is the author of Power play: the rise of modern Sinn Féin (Irish Academic […]

MESSINES TO CARRICK HILL: writing home from the Great War

TOM BURKE Mercier Press €17.99 ISBN 9781781174845 Reviewed by: Patrick Callan Patrick Callan is a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin. Michael Wall […]

Half-Irish and all slave

The life of John Roy Lynch, whose political career during Reconstruction is one of the most remarkable achievements in the pantheon of Irish-American politics. By Joe Regan On 3 November […]

‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’

The life and times of John Philpot Curran. By Patrick Gageby Sadly, barristers are not now as popular as they used to be. John Philpot Curran was probably the most […]