Book Reviews
Introduction
We welcome inquiries from publishers, and are always interested in hearing about forthcoming volumes. Contact Book Review Editor Mikayla Fehring at fehring@uwm.edu if you are interested in reviewing a publication, or have a volume you would like to have reviewed in the journal.Book Reviews
Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague. Edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Creighton University Press, 2004. Paperback, 443 pages. ISBN 1881871452.
James Liddy, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Ireland and Postcolonial Theory. Edited by Clare Carroll and Patricia King. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Paperback, 280 pages. ISBN 0268022860.
Andrew Kincaid, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature. James P. Cantrell. Pelican Publishing Company, 2006. Hardcover, 326 pages. ISBN-13:978-1-58980-330-5.
Michael Newton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
The Sea. John Banville. Knopf: New York, 2005. Paperback, 195 pages. ISBN 0-30726- 311-8.
Matthew Brown, University of Massachusetts – Boston
The Boghole Boys. Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Cork: Marino, 2005. Paperback, 127 pages. ISBN: 1-86023-158-6.
Robert Archambeau, Lake Forest College
Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior. Stephen Allen. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007. Hardcover, 127 pages. ISBN:1841769487.
Bryan Hanks, University of Pittsburgh
Celtic Presence: Studies in Celtic Languages and Literatures: Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish. Piotr Stalmaszczyk. Łódź: Łódź University Press, Poland, 2005. Hardcover, 197 pages. ISBN:978-83-7171-849-6.
Emily McEwan-Fujita, University of Pittsburgh
British Political Parties and National Identity: a Changing Discourse 1997-2010. Pauline Schnapper. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2011. Hardcover, 175 pages. ISBN-10:1-4438-2727-4.
Peter C. Grosvenor, Pacific Lutheran University
Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language and Literature. Edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. 384 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1842174104.
Kevin Garstk, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
The Child in British Literature: Literary Constructions of Childhood, Medieval to Contemporary. Edited by Adrienne E. Gavin. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 266 pages. ISBN: 0230348270.
Sara Gerend, Aurora University
Conquest and Land in Ireland: The Transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680. John Cunningham. Suffolk, UK: Royal Historical Society Publications/Boydell Press, 2011. 240 pages. ISBN:978-0861933150.
Matthew C. Reilly, Syracuse University
Gablánach in scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley. Edited by Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon and Westley Follett. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 320 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84682-386-2.
Raymond J. Cormier, Longwood University
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia. Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 361 pages. ISBN:978-1-4696-1822-7.
Michael Newton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Celts in the Americas. Edited by Michael Newton. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, 2013. 376 pages. ISBN: 978-1-897009-75-8.
Michael Hornsby, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
The Presbyterians of Ulster, 1680-1730. Robert Whan. Woodbridge, Sussex, England: The Boydell Press, 2013. 251 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84383-872-2.
Peter Gilmore, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64. Kate O’Malley. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. 216 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7190-8171-2.
Daniel Leach, University of Melbourne, Australia
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain. Fintan O’Toole. London: Apollo, UK, 2018. 217 pages. ISBN: 978–1789540987.
Peter C. Grosvenor, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington
Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales. Robin Chapman Stacey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 344 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8122-5051-0.
Marisa Mills, University of Southern Mississippi