FAKE NEWS AND THE IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

MICHAEL B. BARRY Andalus Press €15.99 ISBN 9780993355486 Reviewed by Maurice Walsh Maurice Walsh is the author of Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015). […]

IRISH LONDON: A CULTURAL HISTORY 1850–1916

RICHARD KIRKLAND Bloomsbury £85 ISBN 9781350133181 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. In his contribution to Glór Ulladh 1893–1943, the Belfast singer and […]

VICEREINES OF IRELAND: PORTRAITS OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN

MYLES CAMPBELL (ed.) Irish Academic Press €45 ISSN 9781788551355 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. When Mary Robinson […]

ARISTOCRATIC WOMEN IN IRELAND 1450–1660: THE ORMOND FAMILY, POWER AND POLITICS

DAMIEN DUFFY Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783275939 Reviewed by Gillian Kenny Gillian Kenny is a research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. This book […]

IMAGINING IRELAND’S PASTS: EARLY MODERN IRELAND THROUGH THE CENTURIES

NICHOLAS CANNY Oxford University Press £90 ISBN 9780198808961 Reviewed by John Gibney This book arose, as its author admits in the very first line, ‘by accident rather than design’. Nicholas […]