Book Review: The Celts, A Sceptical History
By Simon Jenkins Profile Books Ltd, 2022 Reviewer: Patrick Fresne The word ‘Celt’ is a potent attention-grabber in the English-speaking world, and …
Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with the IRA, 1922-1947
By Gerard Lovett Published by Eastwood Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1-913934-29-3 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of …
TV documentary reviews: The Irish Civil War and Marú in Íarthar Chorcaí
The Irish Civil War Directed by Ruan Mangan Reviewer: Thomas Tormey Airing on RTÉ One over the nights of 11,12,13 December and …
Book Review: Republicanism, Crime and paramilitary policing in Ireland 1916-2020
By Brian Hanley Published by Cork University Press, Cork, 2022 ISBN: 9781782055471 Reviewer: John Dorney This book is the first in a new …
Review: Burning the Big House, the Story of the Irish Country house in Time of War and Revolution
By Terence Dooley Published by Yale University Press, New Haven 2022 Reviewer: John Dorney Terence Dooley has devoted much of his …
Book Review: Spiritual Wounds, Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War
By Siobhra Aiken, Published by Irish Academic Press, 2022 Reviewer John Dorney ISBN:9781788551663 The Irish Civil War (1922-23) which formed the …
Book Review: Kilmichael: the life and afterlife of an ambush
By Eve Morrison, Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781788551458 Reviewer: Jack Hepworth Commemorating the west Cork IRA ambush of …