Best of May Books

Join Patrick for the best of Irish and International history publications for May 2022. Books covered on the show include: Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland 2, the editors Mark O'Brien & Felix M. Larkin; The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin, Irish Traditional Singer, by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín; You Will Dye at Midnight: Victorian Threatening Letters, by Donal P. McCracken; Irish Lives in America by Liz Evers and Niav Gallagher; and Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries – Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state, which is edited by Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe and Emilie Pine.