Book Review: Buck Whaley: Ireland’s Greatest Adventurer
Buck Whaley: Ireland’s Greatest Adventurer by David Ryan Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2019 ISBN: 9781785372292 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “Buck Whaley …
Book Review: Soldiering Against Subversion
Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security during the Troubles, 1969-1998 By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press (2018) …
Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland
By Patricia Byrne Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2018 ISBN: 9781785371721 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “His was a crusade that failed to touch …
Book Reviews: A Bloody Day and Bloody Night, The Irish at Waterloo and Rorke’s Drift
A Bloody Day – The Irish At Waterloo by Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2017 ISBN: 9780993114359 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan …
Mapping Civil War deaths in Dublin
By John Dorney. Based on the research for his new book The Civil War in Dublin, published by Merrion Press. This map …
Book Review: Out of the Ashes, an oral history of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement
By Robert W. White Published by Merrion Press, 2017. Reviewer: John Dorney Robert White is an American sociologist, who over 30 years …
Book Review: Charlie One, The True Story of an Irishman in the British Army and His Role in Covert Counter-Terrorism Operations in Northern Ireland
By Seán Hartnett Published by Merrion Press, 2016 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Special ops memoirs can be a crapshoot in terms of …