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ROY KERR ROGER CONNOR: HOME RUN KING OF 19TH-CENTURY BASEBALL MACFARLAND, 2011. AMONG THE NOTABLES of the nineteenth-century baseball, Roger Connor attracts little attention. For forty-five years, until the Babe [...]

MICHEAL O'SIOCHRU GOD'S EXECUTIONER: OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND. LONDON, FABER AND FABER, 2008 A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO on a historical us-tour of Ireland, an elderly lady [...]

AT AN ACIS National Conference in Milwaukee a few years back, Emmet Larkin, Larry McCafferty, and myself attended a Brewers' baseball game in the new stadium with retractable roof. After [...]

THE BATTLE OF BENBURB was the apex of native Catholic power in the turbulent 1640s Civil War decade. Under the generalship of Owen Roe O'Neill, the Catholic Confederacy's disparaged Northern [...]

BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAMI EDITOR CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, IRELAND, TUDOR PERIOD 1566-1567. DUBLIN: IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION, 2009. THE DOCUMENTS IN THIS CALENDAR are from the first two years of Sir Henry [...]

LIAM SWORDS The Flight of the Earls: A Popular History. Columba Press, Dublin, 2008. Paperback, $18.95. IN RESPONSE TO the 'Flight of the Earls quatercentennial, Liam Swords has written a [...]

CLARAN BRADY & JANE OHLMEYER, EDITORS British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland Cambridge University Press, 2005, $80.00 BRITISH INTERVENTION in Early Modern Ireland, edited by Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer [...]

RAY RIVLIN Shalom Ireland, a Social History of Jews in Modern Ireland Gill & MacMillan, 2003, 22.49 £ MANY READERS OF Shalom Ireland by Ray Rivlin, an orthodox Jew born [...]

NICHOLAS CANNY Making Irish British 1580-1650 Oxford University Press, 2062, 5500 £ RICHARD STANIHURST, AN Old English chronicler, writing in 1577, once suggested, A conquest draweth, or at the leastwise [...]

BERNADETTE CUNNINGHAM The World of Geoffrey Keating History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Ireland Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000, $55.00 ANTHONY D.SMITH IN The Ethnic Origins of Nations proposed that [...]