Unhappy the land: the most oppressed people ever, the Irish?

LIAM KENNEDY Merrion Press €22.50 ISBN 9781785370281 Reviewed by: Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh This collection of nine essays deals with Irish history across three periods. The first three provide the long view: ‘A Most Oppressed People?’, ‘The Planter and the Gael’ and ‘Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland’. The framework of the latter chapter, Kennedy himself admits, ... Read more

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