Reviews of Books

Authors

  • Willie Smyth (U.C.C.)
  • Stephen A. Royle
  • W. J. Smyth St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
  • F. H.A. Aalen
  • J. E. Brady
  • W. Nolan University College Dublin
  • Proinnsias Breathnach
  • D. G. Pringle

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.1991.585

Abstract

THE GEOGRAPHY AND PRACTICE OF ENGLISH COLONISATION IN IRELAND 1534–1609, by Rolf Loeber. Athlone: Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, 1991. 82pp. IR£6.00. No ISBN.

IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE FAMINE: EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1800–1925, by Cormac O'Grada. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 179pp. £10.50stg. ISBN 07190–2676–8.

SPALPEENS AND TATTIE HOKERS: HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF THE IRISH MIGRATORY AGRICULTURAL WORKERIN IRELAND AND BRITAIN, by Anne O'Dowd. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1991. 441pp. IR£40.00 ISBN 0–7165–2450–3.

KELLS, by Anngret Simms with Katharine Simms. Fasicle No.3, Irish Historic Towns Atlas, edited by J.H. Andrews and Anngret Simms. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1990. 12pp. text + 9 maps + 3 plates. IR£18.00. ISBN 0–901714–84–4.

DUBLIN STREET LIFE AND LORE: AN ORAL HISTORY, by Kevin C. Kearns. Dublin: Glendale, 1991. 245pp. IR£14.95. ISBN 0–907606–970.

THE BOOK OF THE BURREN, edited by J.W.O'Connell and A. Korff. Kinvara, South Galway: Tir Eolas, 1991. 228 pp. IR£9.95. ISBN 1 87382100 X.

RURAL CRISIS: PERSPECTIVES ON IRISH RURAL DEVELOPMENT, edited by Tony Varley, Thomas A. Boylan and Michael P. Cuddy. Galway: Centre for Development Studies, University College, Galway, 1991. 244pp. IR£7.00. ISBN 0 95157311X.

VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE, by M.A. Busteed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 260pp. £30.00stg. ISBN 019 823276 4.

Author Biography

W. Nolan, University College Dublin

Department of Geography

Published

2016-08-01

How to Cite

Smyth (U.C.C.), W., Royle, S. A., Smyth, W. J., Aalen, F. H., Brady, J. E., Nolan, W., Breathnach, P., & Pringle, D. G. (2016). Reviews of Books. Irish Geography, 24(2), 144–150. https://doi.org/10.55650/igj.1991.585

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