HISTORY: FRANK McLYNN reviews Titanic Lives: Migrants, Millionaires, Conmen and Crew By Richard Davenport-Hines HarperPress, …

MEDIA: LUKE GIBBONS reviews Irish Journalism before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession Edited by Kevin Rafter Manchester…

This week's paperbacks reviewed

Roger Casement, nationalist and human rights activist, was hanged in 1916

BOOK OF THE DAY: ANNE DOLAN reviews De Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign by Dave Hannigan

BIOGRAPHY:   Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary, By Seamus O'Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656pp

Irish Oratory : Publishers have been periodically compiling collections of Irish speeches for some time now

The latest releases reviewed

This is a most interesting book by a distinguished historian

Irish Times reviewers cast a critical eye over the latest batch of paperbacks.

Glenn Patterson’s latest novel delves into the history of his native Belfast, before the trendy Titanic Quarter, before even …

HISTORY: Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 Edited by Cormac KH O’Malley and Nicholas Allen The…

BIOGRAPHY: Seán MacBride: A Republican Life 1904-1946 By Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid Liverpool University Press 245pp. £65

ARCHITECHTURE: The Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future Edited by Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway Four …

MEMOIR: Raids and Rallies, By Ernie O’Malley, Mercier Press, 282pp. €14.99

MILITARY HISTORY: Gallipoli By Peter Hart Profile, 534pp. £25

HISTORY: Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 By Stephanie Rains Irish Academic Press, 226pp. €39

LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99

LITERARY CRITICISM: The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism , By Terence Brown, Cambridge University Press, 281pp

A roundup of this week's paperbacks

REFERENCE: Dictionary of Irish Biography James McGuire and James Quinn, editors Royal Irish Academy/Cambridge University Press…

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Rising: Easter 1916 By Fearghal McGarry Oxford University Press, 365pp, £18.99

IRISH STUDIES : Modernism, Ireland and Civil War, by Nicholas Allen, Cambridge University Press, 225pp, £50

POLITICS: Judging Lemass: The measure of the man By Tom Garvin Royal Irish Academy, 300pp. €30

MICHAEL KENNEDY reviews My Father, The Genral by Ristéard Mulcahy, Liberties Oress, 283pp €17.99

BOOK OF THE DAY: No Workers’ Republic! Reflections on Labour and Ireland, 1913 – 1967 By Barry Desmond Watchword, 352pp, €20…

THE NAME “Blackadder” is now indelibly linked to the BBC comedy series in which Rowan Atkinson’s cynical anti-hero sent up several…

HISTORY: Gallipoli: The End of the Myth By Robin Prior Yale University Press, 304pp. £25

HISTORY: Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO By Clair Wills Profile Books 299pp £14.99

POETRY: Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Edited by Gerald Dawe Blackstaff, 412pp, £16

HISTORY: We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland's History by Richard Aldous and Niamh Puirséil, Quercus, 216pp

British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-45 By Paul McMahon Boydell Brewer, 516pp

IRISH STUDIES: THIS IMMENSELY valuable study offers an innovative, productive, and genuinely exciting investigation of the anxieties…

History: 'No Surrender Here!' - The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley, 1922-1924 Edited by Cormac KH O'Malley and Anne Dolan…

In 1966, the golden jubilee of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann broadcast a series of 21 lectures on the history of Ireland…

Irish History: 'Few things have shaped and controlled Irish political and legal culture as decisively as the Constitution of…

History: This is a beautifully produced book. The Royal Irish Academy has certainly delivered for Dr Ferriter

History: The words of Lord Acton in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge have an especially…

History Why do we find it so disconcerting to learn that a mass murderer such as Stalin loved gardening, music, literature, …

Northern Ireland: The Orange Order has become a fashionable subject of study