What does the public reaction to the safe retrieval of holy relics from Notre Dame Cathedral reveal about the cult of relics in the modern world? By Niamh Wycherley Shocking […]
Read More →GUY BEINER Oxford University Press £31.50 ISBN 9780198749356 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell How do we orientate the divide between what is publicly acknowledged and what is privately remembered? For anyone […]
Read More →TIMOTHY D. WATT Boydell Press, Irish Historical Monographs £65 ISBN 9781783273126 Reviewed by Myrtle Hill Myrtle Hill is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. As with former publications in […]
Read More →BY TONY CANAVAN Don’t mention the war, massacres or mutiny The British government is having problems with its advisory board on commemorating the First World War. Some members of […]
Read More →MICHAEL McCANN Mercier Press €16.99 ISBN 9781781176191 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is the author of The impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland, 1968–79: boiling volcano? […]
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