Book Review – Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
By Mark Williams. Published by Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 608. €36.99. ISBN 978-0691157313. Reviewer Caroline Hurley I could have done …
Book Review: Soldiers of the Short Grass – A History of the Curragh Camp
Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2016 ISBN: 978-1785370618 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan The Curragh, that flat exposed plain of 4,870 acres in …
Book Review: Truce, Murder Myth and the last days of the Irish War of Independence
Review: Truce By Padraig Og O Ruairc Published by Mercier Press 2016 Reviewer: John Dorney This book is about the four days …
Book review: Fighting Irish – The Irish Regiments in the First World War
By Gavin Hughes, Published by Merrion Press Reviewer: Kieran Glennon This is a book of ambitious scale. Most studies of Ireland’s …
Book review: Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s fight for Irish independence
By Terry Golway Irish Academic press 2015. Reviewer: Ruairí Ó hAodha Terry Golway is a prominent US political commentator, who in this …
Book review Kingdom Overthrown: Ireland and the Battle for Europe 1688-1691
by Gerard FitzGibbon Published by New Island Books, 2015. Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll 2016 is a year of historical remembrance for the Irish …
Book review: Ireland’s Call: Irish Sporting Heroes who Fell in the Great War
By Stephen Walker Published by Merrion Press, Sallins, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-78537-018-2 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “I felt more nervous before playing an …