Irish Histories: Gender, Women and Sexualities

Book Review: Ireland in the World Order: A History of Uneven Development, by Maurice Coakley

“…However, Maurice Coakley has written a provocative book on the theoretical understanding of Irish history since the 12 th century, and this is to be welcomed. The application of different theoretical frameworks to Irish historical practice is a positive development, and such theoretical frameworks have developed significantly in Ireland in the past forty years (Jackson 2014; McAuliffe et al 2009). However, Coakley’s attempt to present an alternative history is not sustained by this book, and the intellectual apparatus is undermined by a polemical tone and sins of omission.…”