The Williamite War in Ireland, 1688-1691, Richard Doherty (Four Courts Press, 1998, £40.00 hb, £14.95 pb) ISBN 1851823743, 1851823751

The war between William and James, though of relatively short duration, was fought on a scale unsurpassed in Irish history: there were 60,000 men at the Boyne, more than 40,000 […]

The Ancient World of the Celts, Peter Berresford Ellis. (Constable, £25) ISBN 0094787204 Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts, Laurence Flanagan. (Gill and Macmillan, £16.99) ISBN 0717124347

Those of us who desire to know about the past are served by many people and groups: researchers, teachers, writers, and not least by publishers—without whom the thoughts of historians […]

Irish Historical Research Prize

A prize of £2,000 will be offered in 1999, and in alternate yearsthereafter, for the best work of Irish historical research, the matterof which must have been published for the […]

James Hogan, revolutionary, historian, political scientist (1898-1963)

Bodin, Hobbes, Hegel, Weber, Troeltsch and Von Gierke were the political philosophers whom the late Professor James Hogan used lecture us on as his students in University College Cork in […]

A Journey of Remembrance: Wilson’s Hospital & the First World War

It all began in the classroom in Wilson’s Hospital school. Why, my Leaving Certificate history pupils wanted to know, did so many Irishmen enlist for the Great War. I endeavoured […]