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THE IRISH ASSASSINS: conspiracy, revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders that stunned Victorian England

JULIE KAVANAGH Grove Press £18.99 ISBN 9781611856415 Reviewed by Barry Walsh Barry Walsh is a solicitor and a former Policy Adviser at the Department of An Taoiseach. The final decades […]

‘THE FIRST NATIONAL MUSEUM’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century

SHERRA MURPHY Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782054559 Reviewed by Tony Canavan Tony Canavan is Consultant Editor of Books Ireland. Ireland’s Natural History Museum—or the ‘Dead Zoo’, as it is […]

IRELAND’S ENGLISH PALE, 1470–1550: the making of a Tudor region

STEVEN ELLIS Boydell £75 ISBN 9781783276608 Reviewed by Ruth Canning Ruth Canning is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University. Ireland’s English Pale is a region frequently […]

THE COASTAL ATLAS OF IRELAND

ROBERT DEVOY, VAL CUMMIN, BARRY BRUNT, DARIUS BARTLETT and SARAH KANDROT (eds) Cork University Press €59 ISBN 9781782054511 Reviewed by David Murphy The late John de Courcy Ireland (d. 2006), […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Boston-based Professor Emerita of History Catherine Shannon was one of History Ireland’s founding patrons, and Navigating historical crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic—her Festschrift (as we say […]

September 11

1968 Denis McCullough (85), co-founder of the Dungannon Clubs (1905) with Bulmer Hobson and director of the IRB in Ulster at the time of the Easter Rising, died.
1954 Robert Smyllie, influential editor of the Irish Times, died.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1910 Robert Loraine, British actor and Boer War veteran, in his Henry Farman biplane became the first man to fly across the Irish Sea.
1741 Arthur Young, English agricultural theorist and traveller, and author of the acclaimed A Tour of Ireland (1780), born.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR, introduced by Westminster three years earlier as a ‘minority safeguard’, for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1954 Robert ‘Bertie’ Smylie (61), editor of the Irish Times since 1934, who transformed the paper from an Ascendancy viewpoint to one with a non-partisan profile, died.

THE IRISH ASSASSINS: conspiracy, revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders that stunned Victorian England

‘THE FIRST NATIONAL MUSEUM’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century

IRELAND’S ENGLISH PALE, 1470–1550: the making of a Tudor region

THE COASTAL ATLAS OF IRELAND

BOOKWORM

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September 11