Book reviews
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description: Book reviews in the Irish Democrat
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Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe

Fron-Goch and the birth of the IRA

Dublin Then and Now

Who Stole Our Game: the fall and fall of Irish soccer

Civilizing Ireland: Ordnannce Survey 1824-1842

Irish Studies Review (Vol.15, number 1)

Censorship in the two Irelands

Eddie's Own Aquarius

Irish Freedom

Mac Curtain Family Memoir

Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising

The Philosophy of Irish Ireland

The Burning of Cork

Ireland and India

Handloom Weavers in Ulster’s Linen Industry

Landlords, Tenants, Famine

Edmund Burke's Irish Identities

The Sage of Science

Kathleen Lynn: Irishwomen, patriot, doctor

Spies, Informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Fein Society'

Michael Collins and the Treaty

Dan Breen and the IRA

Killing Finucane

Irish Studies Review (14/2&3)

Acting Irish in Hollywood

The Young Rebels

The Politics of Northern Ireland

Ireland and the Global Question

Founded on Fear

Cork Through European Eyes

The Lady Next Door

Con Cremin: Ireland's wartime diplomat

MacBride: 'Irish Statesman and Revolutionary'

Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland

The Phoenix Park Murders

Emergency Law in Independent Ireland

Nothing But An Unfinished Song

A Biographical Dictionary of Cork

Century of Endeavour

Women and Unionism in Northern Ireland

Bob Doyle: Brigadista

Directory of Historic Locations

Róisín Bán

Staging the Easter Rising

British propaganda in Ireland 1920

Rebel Ireland

Maria Edgeworth: women, enlightenment and nation

The O'Donoghues' War of Independence

Sinn Fein and the SDLP: from alienation to participation

The GPO and the Easter Rising

Supreme Sacrifice: the story of Eamonn Ceannt 1881-1916

Grattan's Failure

40 Years of Controversy

James Connolly: a full life

Easter 1916

James Connolly Re-assessed

That Day's Struggle: a memoir

Eoin O’Duffy: a self-made hero

Local History since 1945

The Origins of the Troubles

The Beginning of the End

My Struggle For Life

The Great Deception

Radical Politics in Modern Ireland

1916 Easter Rising in print

Through American and Irish Wars

Irishmen in War 1800-2000

The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)

A Noontide Blazing

What Lies Beneath

A Dictionary of Hiberno-English (revised & expanded edition)

The Republic: issue 4

Problems and Perspectives in Irish History

In Green and Red: the lives of Frank Ryan

Women and Public Policy in Ireland

Renovation or Revolution

Baptised in Blood

Famine in Cork

Preventing the Future

Ireland and the European Union

Foreign Affectations: essays on Edmund Burke

The Galtee Boy

Your Fondest Annie

Our Own Devices: national symbols and political conflict

The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins

Press Delete

Documenting Irish Feminisms

Ireland and the Palestinian Question

Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell

Differently Irish: 25 years of Vietnamese-Irish identity

Rebuilding the Celtic Languages

Sinking of the Kenbane Head

'The Irish Zorro'

Pocket History of Irish Writers

Dead Men Talking

A New Dictionary of Irish History

Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals

Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations, 1910-21

Rebel City

Guide to the graves of Irish writers

The Guardianship of Historical Records

A University in Troubled Times

Green Against Green

The Connolly Column

The Real Chief: Liam Lynch

Himself Alone: David Trimble

The Irish Ordnance Survey

Irish women and nationalism

Nell

The Land for the People

King in Exile: James II

Kicking and Screaming

Shadows: inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch

From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement

Irish Volunteers for Spain

Rebel Columns/Choosing the Green

Book reviews in brief

Thomas Edmondson and the Dublin Laundry

Irish Women's History

Irish writing: an anthology in English, 1789-1939

St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood

Shadow of a Gunman/ Tricycle Theatre

Festschrift in honour of ATQ Stewart

Commemorating Ireland

Essays in honour of Brian Farrell

New account of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings

The Irish Council of Churches and its response to 'The Troubles'

Ulster and Scotland

The serrated edge of Britain's dirty war

The uncrowned king of economy-class travel

Expanding our understanding of Irish landlordism

De Valera and the 'Black Fifties'

De Valera family memoir

Passage through the annals of Irish civilisation

Soft focus portrait of loyalist terror gang

Flawed Gonne

Feeling the force of a conservative backlash

Warriors, wives and workers

The fierce independence of 'Soda-bread' Sam

Dublin's finest

A big heart is not enough

Britain's dirty colonial war in Ireland

Primary sources point to longstanding plans for European superstate

Book reviews in brief

Reflections on motherhood in Ireland

Radical and revolutionary women

'Foundation text' for Ulster unionism

Vivid independence-war memoir

Flourishing times for traditional Irish crafts

Reclaiming Dublin

In the service of the British crown

Passionate socialist and a true friend of Ireland

Studies of the transition to post-colonialism

New parameters set for Home Rule campaign

Songs in the key of history

Rebel who kept up the fight

Sordid tales of Mad dogs and Billy boys

A biography fit for a national hero

The long view

The true nature of republicanism, democracy & culture

Authoritative account of orangeism

An Irish legacy of the Enlightenment

A history of collusion, murder and deceit

A timely, comprehensive overview of the United Irish revolution

Republicanism's way forward, with one eye on the past

Enlightened daughters of a revolutionary age

Northern Ireland's writing on the wall

Illustrated history of Robert Emmet

Book reviews in brief

Put on the khaki

A secrt history of innaccuracy, hearsay

Griffith's legacy offers little for the republican reader

A handy guide to anti-imperialist activism today

Surveying the political spectrum of Irish politics

Balanced approach to the life of ‘Big Jim’

History of Irish lace

Hannibal’s quest

Journey back from the brink

Marxist who embraced the Republic

Linguistic legacy of the colonial era

Charismatic United Irish leader

Schooled in the tradition

Book revievs: in brief

Leftward shift thwarted by reaction and division

The Provisionals' long march from war to peace

Racism study sends out a bleak warning

Trouble and strife

A friend of Ireland

Frank Ryan: patriot or collaborator?

Shedding light on WWII aid episode

The battle for Irish independence

A Fenian escapade

Coming to terms with historical memory

Striving to become part of the solution

A concise study of modern Ireland

Unionist explores grounds for peace

From IRA warrior to man of peace

Still tangled up in red, white and blue

Thoughtful study of Christianity in Ireland

The tiger whimpers

The sound of truth

A tour of heraldic offices

Reviews in brief

Linda Kearns: rebel with a gauze

Feminist pioneers in a very modern marriage

Seamus Heaney: a talent in the round

Photographs from a turbulent century

Rescuing Standish O'Grady for Socialism

Arthur O'Connor and the United Irish rebellion

Marching to the neo-liberal tune

Hindsight-assisted intelligence

Beyond sympathy for the Stuarts

Modern Irish history's Turin shroud

Emigration study

Steering clear of the C-word

Women's lives touched by conflict in the north

Land Ownership in Britain and Ireland

The people’s voice in songs of revolt

Field Day anthology of Irish women writers

Irish dramatists inspired by Greek parallels

Embracing the trappings of western democracy

The development of a modern republican party

Taking on the euro

A proconsul with a style all of her own

A working-class loyalist narrative

Another hurrah for the Tipperary minstrel man

Under the spell of the phoney MacCarthy Mór

Biographical study lacking in focus

Uneven assault on Irish first world war efforts

They got their £3 -- and some

Overseas relations

Christianity and its role in sectarinism

The Easter rising and its vengeful aftermath

Exploring the question of racism in Ireland

A baneful tale of intrigue, treachery and deceit

A long, long way from Clare to here

Insighful profile of players and process

Liverpool's radical anti--slavery poet

Falling Short of an encouraging title

Orange Disorder

Book reviews in brief (August/Septemebr 2002 edition)

Sketching the development of racism in Ireland

Every picture tells a Bloody Sunday story

Oxford Companion to Irish History (revised edition)

History Scotland (issue 1)

Inclement outlook

A semi-autographical tale of discovery

Bread and circuses -- without the bread

A revision of the unionist outlook

Brits: the final installment

Book reviews in brief (June/July 2002 edition)

Lucid account of Celtic glory days

True voices of the republican 'awkward squad'

The Union under seige

Rebellion's failure opens door to direct rule

Two hundred years of Irish political activity

Contorted view of the Irish conflict

Democratic task for all socialists

Pride of the nation

Facing Both Ways

The GUBU man

Imprisoned at sea

Book reviews in brief (April/May 2002 edition)

Fitting tribute to a fine poet and Irish activist

The biographer's craft as an instrument of war

The novel appliance of war propaganda

The Hungary link

Potted biographies to whet an appetite

Poet and prisoner

A deadly business

Insider insight into 1981 hunger strike

A history beyond shovel,pick and pint

Bloody Sunday

A class perspective

Their final words

Colonial courtiers

Orangeism hits crisis as domination crumbles

A 'Terrible Beauty'

The old brigade

London in London

Women speak out

Sympathetic treatment of a 'complex' loyalist

Contrasting images of Ireland north and south

Great poet, reactionary nationalist

Do big cats travel?

Spain's dirty war

Scotland in revolt

Nottingham bound

Dark days in Kerry

Irish Republicanism and Buried Alive in Ireland

Free guide shows way round London

Peadar O'Donnell and Louie Bennett

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