Through Irish Eyes Patrick O’Farrell (Gill and Macmillan £12.99)

Through Irish Eyes is distinct from O’Farrell’s earlier works in that it is not a conventional academic type history in the written sense, rather it is a collection of photographs, […]

Priestly Fictions:popular Irish novelists of the early twentieth century Catherine Candy (Wolfhound, £12.99)

Coleridge and Matthew Arnold defended the Church of England on the grounds that its clergy spread civilisation among their flocks. Canon P.A. Sheehan of Doneraile (1852-1913) hoped the Catholic clergy […]

The Miasma:epidemic and panic in nineteenth-century Ireland Joseph Robins (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, £7.95)

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘miasma’ as ‘infectious or noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous particles or germs floating in and polluting the atmosphere’. Before the later […]

‘An Irish Empire’?: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire Keith Jeffery (eds.) (Manchester University Press, £40)

The British empire balks large in Irish history and the Irish experience but is one of such ambivalence that it rarely gets examined in a thoughtful and systematic fashion. The […]

The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the construction of Irish identity 1760-1830 Kevin Whelan (Cork University Press in association with Field Day, £14.95

The 1790s have emerged, over the past fifteen years or so, as the focus of some of the most vigorous and challenging writing currently forthcoming from Irish historians. In that […]