THE DARKNESS ECHOING: EXPLORING IRELAND’S PLACES OF FAMINE, DEATH AND REBELLION

GILLIAN O’BRIEN Doubleday €16.99 ISBN 9781781620502 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Gillian O’Brien’s new book could be described as a travelogue of Ireland’s ‘dark tourism’—those sites associated with the titular famine, death and rebellion, explored here by the author with ... Read more

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