Radical Irish Priests 1660-1970, Gerard Moran (ed.). (Four Courts Press, £30) ISBN 1851822496

The Catholic priesthood can be seen as exemplifying ‘traditional’ leadership where authority derives from a social role irrespective of the individual involved; but there have always been priests who developed […]

Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998: the Mote and the Beam, John D. Brewer and Gareth I. Higgins. (Macmillan Press, £16.99 ISBN 0333746341

Apart from the postscript, which in my view is the weakest section of the book owing to its pious, unctuous and preaching tone, Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, was written by […]

British Consciousness and Identity: the making of Britain, 1533-1707, Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts (eds.). (Cambridge University Press, £45) ISBN O521433835

Although about the making of Britain, this volume also has a disproportionately large Irish content, reflecting the growing interest among Irish historians in viewing Ireland’s ties with England, Scotland, and […]

History Studies: Journal of the Limerick History Society

The University of Limerick History Society intends to publish itssecond journal of history in 2000. The journal—History Studies—iscommitted to publish the best undergraduate and postgraduate work inthe field of history. […]

‘Royal service’ [resumed]

In the Kenneth Nicholls’ article, ‘Worlds Apart?: the Ellis Two-NationTheory on Late Medieval Ireland’, in the last issue an extraneous ‘and’(not the author’s) garbled the meaning of the last complete […]