The Irish Revolution: a global history. Edited by Patrick Mannion, and Fearghal McGarry,. Pp 376. New York: New York University Press. 2022. US$35.00.

The Irish Revolution: a global history. Edited by Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry. Pp 376. New York: New York University Press. 2022. US$35.00.

Irish revolutionary historiography has, until recently, been a self-contained affair, marked by discrete demarcations between Irish and Irish diaspora histories, and between Irish and other historiographies. Emerging against and in critical dialogue with the discourse of national commemoration on the decade of centenaries, new research on the transnational contestation of the ‘Irish question’ — including by Brian Hanley and Maurice J. Casey — has begun to disturb the comfortable bounds of earlier, state-centric historical narratives. In a major intervention into this transnational turn, Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry have produced a new edited collection that traces a range of previously overlooked connections, transfers and analogies between Ireland and the world.

The Irish Revolution: a global history opens a range of new lines of enquiry that radically expand the spatial bounds of Ireland's revolutionary history beyond ‘island’ stories. Its various contributions converge around a common orientation towards exploring the Irish revolution as a ‘fundamentally transnational’ historical moment that both emerged against and shaped a world of imperial crises. The imperative to expand the bounds of Irish history is, in part, born out of a post-revisionist moment in an Irish historiography exhausted...