HISTORY: FRANK McLYNN reviews Titanic Lives: Migrants, Millionaires, Conmen and Crew By Richard Davenport-Hines HarperPress, …

MEDIA: LUKE GIBBONS reviews Irish Journalism before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession Edited by Kevin Rafter Manchester…

This week's paperbacks reviewed

Roger Casement, nationalist and human rights activist, was hanged in 1916

BOOK OF THE DAY: ANNE DOLAN reviews De Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign by Dave Hannigan

BIOGRAPHY:   Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary, By Seamus O'Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656pp

Irish Oratory : Publishers have been periodically compiling collections of Irish speeches for some time now

The latest releases reviewed

This is a most interesting book by a distinguished historian

Irish Times reviewers cast a critical eye over the latest batch of paperbacks.

Glenn Patterson’s latest novel delves into the history of his native Belfast, before the trendy Titanic Quarter, before even …

HISTORY: Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 Edited by Cormac KH O’Malley and Nicholas Allen The…

BIOGRAPHY: Seán MacBride: A Republican Life 1904-1946 By Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid Liverpool University Press 245pp. £65

ARCHITECHTURE: The Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future Edited by Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway Four …

MEMOIR: Raids and Rallies, By Ernie O’Malley, Mercier Press, 282pp. €14.99

MILITARY HISTORY: Gallipoli By Peter Hart Profile, 534pp. £25

HISTORY: Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 By Stephanie Rains Irish Academic Press, 226pp. €39

LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99

LITERARY CRITICISM: The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism , By Terence Brown, Cambridge University Press, 281pp

A roundup of this week's paperbacks