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Michael Ryan is Curator of the Chester Beatty Library; Michael Brown lectures in Scottish history at the University of St Andrews; Henry A. Jeffries teaches history at Thornhill College, Derry; […]

Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, F.H.A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout (eds). (Cork University Press, £35) ISBN 1-85918-095-7

Among the various terms applied to works of reference, ‘atlas’ has now become the most user-friendly, more companionable than ‘companion’ and certainly less repellent than ‘dictionary’, ‘directory’ or ‘encyclopaedia’. To […]

Visual Politics: the Representation of Ireland 1750-1930, Fintan Cullen. (Cork University Press) ISBN 185918 023 X

For most people, historical knowledge is constituted by the oral and the visual. The oral tradition transmits a sense of tradition and belonging creating an identity which is buttressed by […]

The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism, Fintan Lane. (Cork University Press, hb £45, pb £16.95 ISBN 1-85918-151-1, 1-85918-152-X

Socialism BC (before Connolly) is an episodic, disconnected subject. It staged a grand entry in the 1820s through such leading co-operators as Robert Owen and William Thompson, shrank to a […]

The Wild Geese of the Antrim MacDonnells, Hector MacDonnell. (Irish Academic Press, £25 ISBN 0-7165-2609-3

The purpose of this book is to give an insight into the achievements and tribulations of an Irish family in exile—namely the descendants of Sorley Boy MacDonnell, a sixteenth-century County […]