‘To Solitude Confined’: the Tasmanian journal of William Smith O’Brien, 1849-1853, Richard Davis (ed.)(Crossing Press)

William Smith O’Brien’s Tasmanian Journal covers the period from his arrival in Van Diemen’s Land/Tasmania in October 1849 to March 1853, a little under a year before he was granted […]

The Memoirs of Mrs. Leeson, Mary Lyons (ed.) (Lilliput)

Mrs. Margaret Leeson 1727-1797 was Georgian Dublin’s version of Christine Keeler or Heidi Fleiss. Her long career contained elements of both Keeler and Fleiss but, judging by her memoirs, she […]

Lords of the Ascendancy: the Irish House of Lords and its members 1600-1800, F.G. James (Irish Academic Press, Dublin and The Catholic University of America Press, Washington £27.50)

In view of the centrality of parliament to the history and historiography of the Ireland of the ‘Protestant ascendancy’, it is surprising that there is no modern study to compare […]

Women, Power and Consciousness in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Mary Cullen and Maria Luddy (eds.) (Attic Press, £15.99 pb), Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History, Maria Luddy (Cork University Press, £40 hb, £17.50 pb) In Their Own Voice:

To be asked to review three new publications on Irish women’s history is in itself a heart-warming and encouraging experience, and a clear indication of the progress currently being made […]

Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: essays presented to J.F. Lydon T.B. Barry, Robin Frame and Katharine Simms (eds.) (Hambledon Press)

This collection of essays in honour of Professor J.F. Lydon, recently retired Lecky Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, is a worthy tribute to a scholar who has contributed […]