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ISS Journal: Reviews Section

The following book reviews are now available:

2013

Gavin Hamilton
John Morrison (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Brendan Cassidy, The Life and Letters of Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798): Artist & Art Dealer in eighteenth-century Rome.
(Harvey Miller: London, 2012). ISBN 978-1-905-37559-2, Hardback, 2 volumes, 855pp., £150.

Medics and Sceptics
Liz Neesam (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Roger L. Emerson, Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment: ‘Industry, Knowledge and Humanity’ .
(Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). ISBN 978-0-7546-9338-3, Hardback, 316pp, £63.

Redmond: a leader of eloquence, courage and compromise
Marnie Hay (University College Dublin)
A review of
Dermot Meleady, Redmond: The Parnellite
(Cork: Cork University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-85918-423-3, Hardback, xv + 407 pp, £42.

Roddy Connolly and the Politics of the Left in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Chloe Ross (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Charlie McGuire, Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland.
(Cork: Cork University Press, 2008) ISBN 9-7-818-5918420-2, Hardback 318 pp., £42.

Reformed discipline in an early modern Scottish burgh
Chris Langley (University of York)
A review of
Margo Todd (ed.), The Perth Kirk Session Book, 1577-1590(Woodbridge: Scottish History Society, 2012) ISBN 978-0-906-24531-6, Hardback, x + 574pp., £40.

Bulmer Hobson
Annina Cavelti Kee (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Marnie Hay, Bulmer Hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century Ireland (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0-7190-7987-0, Paperback, 275pp. £18.99.

Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader
Robert Millar (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
Jeremy J. Smith, Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader.
(Woodbridge: Scottish Text Society, 2012) ISBN: 978-1-89797-633-3 Hardback, xi +253 pp. £45

Cúchulain Will Fight, And Cúchulain Will Be Right
Adam Hanna (University of Aberdeen)        
A review of    
Eugene McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival
(Cork: Cork University Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1-85918-427-1. Hardback, 258pp. £34

Corkery at the Crossroads?
Adam Hanna (University of Aberdeen)        
A review of    
Heather Laird (ed.), Daniel Corkery’s Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings
(Cork: Cork University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-85918-455-4. Hardback, 316pp. £34

Migration, identity, space, and Empire: the Irish and Scots in Australia
Andrew Dilley (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Lindsay Proudfoot and Dianne Hall, Imperial spaces: placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0719078378, Hardback, 248pp. £65.

 

2012

The Life of Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
David Allan (University of St Andrews)
A Review of
Robert G.W. Anderson and Jean Jones (ed.), The Correspondence of Joseph Black (2 vols, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012) ISBN 978-0-7546-0131-9, Hardback, 1582pp. £300.

 

2011

History, Patriotism, and the Poor
Ian Campbell (University College Dublin)
A review of
Mark Williams and S. P. Forest (eds.) Constructing the Past: Writing Irish History 1600-1800 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-84383-573-8, Hardback, 205pp £55.

The richest man in Ireland
Raymond Whelan (Aberdeen)
A Review of
Patrick Walsh, The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy The Life of William Conolly 1662-1729 (Boydell; Woodbridge, 2010, x + 229pp, ISBN 978-1-84383-584-4).

 

2010

Squabbling Siblings
Andrew G. Newby (Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki)
A review of
Frank Ferguson & James. McConnel (eds), Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2009. Pp 182. Hardback ISBN 978-1-84682-150-9, €49.50).

Folklore and the Fantastic
Shane McCorristine (NUI, Maynooth)
A review of
Jason Marc Harris, Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, 2008), ISBN: 0754657663, ix + 235pp. Hard Cover. £50.

Northern Views
Kirsteen M MacKenzie (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Michael Newton, Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders (Brirlinn; Edinburgh, 2009), 449pp. ISBN: 1841588261, £20.00

Writing for Laughs
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Daniel C. Fouke, Philosophy and Theology in a Burlesque Mode: John Toland and “The Way of Paradox” (Humanity Books, Amherst New York, 2007), ISBN 978-1-59102-324-1, Hardback, $65.00/ £54.50

Many Marys
Caroline Erskine (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
John D. Staines, The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690 (Farnham, Ashgate, 2009), 278pp, £55

Speaking Out
Peter Davidson (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Jason Harris and Keith Sidwell (eds.) Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters  (Cork: Cork University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-185918-453-0 Hardback 254pp €49, £45.

 

2009

Improving Culture
Brian D. Bonnyman (University of Aberdeen)
A review of:
Toby Barnard, Improving Ireland? Projectors, Prophets and Profiteers 1641-1786 (Four Courts Press), 192pp, £55.

Remembering Not to Forget
Shane Murphy (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
Michael Parker, Northern Irish Literature 1956-1975 and Northern Irish Literature 1975-2006 (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2007), ISBN: 9780333604151, 386pp, 9780230553057, pp368

Frank Ferguson's Ulster-Scots Writing: an anthology
Gavin Falconer (QUB)
A review of
Frank Ferguson, Ulster-Scots Writing: an anthology (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2008), ISBN 978-1-84682-074-8, xv + 544 pp.

 

2008

Dining for Ireland?
Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Martyn J. Powell, The Politics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Macmillan: Houndsmills, 2005), ISBN: 978-0333973554, viii +293pp

Who Fears to Write of Ninety-Eight?
Stephen Dornan (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Andrew James, The Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight, notes and afterword by John Wilson Foster (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), 178pp, ISBN: 1-85182-961-x

Lowland Presbyterian Unionist Politicians and the Union
Daniel MacCannell (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Christopher A. Whatley, with Derek J. Patrick, The Scots and the Union (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2006/2007), ISBN 978 0 7486 3470 5, xvi+424pp.

More than a Province of the Mind
Johanna Archbold (Trinity College Dublin)
A review of
Richard B. Sher, The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), ISBN: 0-226-75252-6, xxvi+815pp.

A Tale of Two Countries
Rosalyn Trigger (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Malcolm Campbell, Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0-299-22330-2, xiv + 249 pp.

It Is Not Enough to Have Written the Thing
Margaret Maxwell (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
Melissa Sihra, ed., Women in Irish Drama: A Century of Authorship and Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) ISBN-13: 978-0-230-00647-8, ISBN-10: 0-230-00647-7, xix + 341pp.

The Importance of not being Over-Earnest
Isobel Murray (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Alexandra Warwick, Oscar Wilde (Northcote/British Council: Tavistock, 2007), ISBN 978-0-7463-1139-4, x+102pp.

‘Digging’ New Ground?
Sukanya Basu (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
Ashby. B. Crowder and Jason. D. Hall, eds., Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007), ISBN-13: 978-0-230-00342-2, ISBN-10: 0-230-00342-7, xii + 214pp

‘Not not the “real” James Kelman’
Paul Shanks (University of Aberdeen)
A Review of
Simon Kővesi, James Kelman (Manchester University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-7190-7096-9, xiv + 210pp

A Sporting Challenge?
Neal Garnham (University of Ulster)
Review of
Tom Hunt, Sport and Society in Victorian Ireland: The Case of Westmeath (Cork: Cork University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-185918-415-8, 374pp.

Kings and Demons
William G. Naphy (University of Aberdeen)
A review of
Brian Levack, Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (Routledge; Oxford, 2008). ISBN (13): 978-0-415-39943-2 (pbk); 217pp.

Witchfinding
William G. Naphy
University of Aberdeen
A review of
Brian Levack, Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (Routledge: London, 2008). ISBN (13): 978-0-415-39943-2, 217pp.

‘Who are these people?’
Marnie Hay (Trinity College Dublin)
A Review of
David A. Wilson (ed.), The Orange Order in Canada (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2007), ISBN978-1-84682-077-9, 213pp.

Still in search of liberty
Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway)
A Review of
Karen Steele, Women, Press and Politics During the Irish Revival (Syracuse UP, 2007), ISBN10 0815631170, 273pp

Where was British Romanticism?
Joep Leerssen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
A Review of
Murray Pittock, Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2008), ISBN978-0-19-923279-6, 292 pp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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