From the August 2021 Issue Blood in the Park The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Murders That Stunned an Empire By Julie Kavanagh LR
From the March 1993 Issue Women Speak Wisdom and Men Flee to the Pub Xanthippic Dialogues: A Philosophical Fiction By Roger Scruton
From the February 2017 Issue Joined at the Hip The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border By Garrett Carr LR
From the October 2016 Issue Dedicated Followers of Fascism Fascist in the Family: The Tragedy of John Beckett MP By Francis Beckett Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce By Colin Holmes LR
From the May 2016 Issue Of Myths & Martyrs The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic By Ruth Dudley Edwards LR
From the March 2015 Issue Pregnancy Pauses The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution By Jonathan Eig In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties By Jane Robinson LR
From the November 2014 Issue Rising Stars Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890–1923 By R F Foster LR
From the March 2010 Issue ‘Ireland Sober Is Ireland Free!’ The Rising – Ireland: Easter 1916 By Fearghal McGarry LR
From the November 2009 Issue Country Matters Occasions of Sin: Sex & Society in Modern Ireland By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the September 2008 Issue Ordovician Eruption Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness By Tim Robinson LR
From the May 2008 Issue Parnell’s Passion Ireland’s Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O’Shea By Elisabeth Kehoe LR
From the March 2008 Issue Caught in the Crossfire Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast By Kevin Myers LR
From the March 2007 Issue The Troubles of the Emerald Isle That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War By Clair Wills Irish Free: The History of Nationalism in Ireland By Richard English LR
From the February 2007 Issue Superior Sisters Nuns: A History of Convent Life By Silvia Evangelisti LR
From the May 2006 Issue De Valera In the Dock The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939–45 By Brian Girvin LR
From the February 2006 Issue The Rise of the Kerns Men that God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland By Derek Lundy LR
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