PÁDRAIG LENIHAN University College Dublin Press €42.85 ISBN 9781906359836 Reviewed by Martin Mansergh Few past military leaders are associated with melodies still played today. Handel’s glorious See the conquering hero comes was written in 1747 in honour of ‘Butcher’ Cumberland’s ruthless suppression of the Jacobites. Marshal Radetzky, who crushed revolution in northern Italy in 1849, ... Read more
