John Gibney: Ireland and the Monarchy [2019] hardback ZCHRI massacre and madness played out

massacre and madness played out against squalor and splendour

haunted by tragedy and memories of greatness

- Basic terms / the Beaufort Scale

unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship

'Elegant and absorbing' FINANCIAL TIMES

John Gibney: Ireland and the Monarchy [2019] hardback ZCHRI massacre and madness played outIn the twenty first century there are two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, and two very different heads of state represent the populations of Ireland and Northern Ireland respectively: the elected presidency of the republic, and the hereditary monarchy of the United Kingdom. But the idea of monarchy, and the related notion of aristocracy, has a long heritage in Ireland. There was a native aristocracy long before the British conquest, and