Book Review: My Life in Loyalism
By Billy Hutchinson and Garreth Mulvenna Published by Merrion Press 2020 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Like many a young man in Northern Ireland …
Book Review: The Enigma of Arthur Griffith: ‘Father of us all’
By Colum Kenny Published by Merrion Press (2020) Reviewed: Eoin O’Driscoll We are approaching the end of Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries (2012-2023). …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …
Book Review: Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail
Edited by Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, Published by: Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021) Reviewer: Aidan Beatty John Cahill/Eoin Ua …
Book Review: Ballymacandy, The Story of Kerry Ambush
By Owen O’Shea Published by Merrion Press, 2020 ISBN 9781785373879, Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Irish history writing is often a site of …
Book Review: A Difficult Birth: The Early Years of Northern Ireland 1920-25
By Alan Parkinson Published by Eastwood Books (2020) Reviewer: Kieran Glennon Alan Parkinson’s 2004 book, Belfast’s Unholy War: The Twenties’ Troubles, …
Book Review: Kevin Barry, An Irish Rebel in Life and Death
By Eunan O’Halpin Published by Merrion Press, 2020 Reviewer: John Dorney Kevin Barry, aged 18, was hanged in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin …