TE GREAT COVER UP: the truth about the death of Michael Collins

GERARD MURPHY The Collins Press €19.99 ISBN 9781848893375 Reviewed by: Nigel Jones Nigel Jones is a former editor of History Today and BBC History Magazine. The fatal shooting of Michael […]

The Irish hand: scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times

TIMOTHY O’NEILL Cork University Press €39 This book is a celebration of a core element in any culture whose memory has been committed to writing: its script. Writing in its […]

Braveheart…brave attempt

Mel Gibson’s recently released film Braveheart, based rather loosely on the life of the Scots hero William Wallace, has engendered much debate and not a little criticism. It is  a […]

Ireland and the Vatican: the politics and diplomacy of church-state relations 1922-1960, Dermot Keogh (Cork University Press, £37.50 hb, £17.50 pb)

Keogh’s study of the relationship between the independent Irish state and the Vatican fills one lacuna in our understanding of the politics and diplomacy of Irish church-state relations and, to […]

The Cause of Ireland, from the United Irishmen to Partition Liz Curtis (Beyond the Pale Publications, £12.95) (3:1)

(3:1) Reviewed by Tony Canavan In the wake of the revisionist/anti-revisionist debate in Irish history, one approaches any book with a title like The Cause of Ireland with a certain […]