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My top books on Irish history
There are a lot of books on Irish history, and the current Decade of Commemoration has prompted a flood of new ones. Here’s my choice of a few of those that have been around for a while but are still...
View ArticleBook review: Acts of Union and Disunion, by Linda Colley
I bought this on a whim last week and have now almost finished reading it. It’s based on the BBC Radio 4 radio series of the same name, which dealt with the various acts and processes that have either...
View ArticleBook Review: Vanished Kingdoms, by Norman Davies
I bought this book on a whim, partly because I guessed (correctly) that it would have something in it about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is a casual interest of mine. Judging by what I’ve found...
View ArticleShould Ireland have stayed in the Commonwealth?
From one review of Ireland and the British Empire (which I’ve just ordered from amazon.co.uk): Apparently de Valera was furious with Costello when he announced, in 1948, that the newly declared...
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The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham:A Review
My attention was first called to Ulster-born writer George A. Birmingham by a review of his novel The Major’s Candlesticks on the Reading 1900–1950 blog. That novel is a comedy set in the aftermath of...
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Review of Unapproved Routes by Peter Leary
Leary, Peter, Unapproved Routes: Histories of the Irish Border, 1922–1972, (Oxford: OUP, 2016) [Click on the image to go to amazon.co.uk]I saw this advertised somewhere recently and as it seemed...
View ArticleReview link: Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
My review of Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in Fin-de-siècle Paris by David Charles Rose has just been published online and will be included in the next issue...
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Book Review: Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923
Photo credit: http://www.mauricewalsh.net/ Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923 Maurice Walsh Faber & Faber So much has been published about the Irish revolutionary period...
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Review of The Border by Diarmaid Ferriter
The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics Diarmaid Ferriter Profile Books London A combination of the Decade of Commemoration in Ireland and the shenanigans around a Brexit deal...
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Two Northern Irish book reviews:Paramilitary Loyalism: Identity and Change/A...
Richard Reed, Paramilitary Loyalism: Identity and Change (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015) Alan F. Parkinson, A Difficult Birth: The Early Years of Northern Ireland, 1920–5 (Dublin:...
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