TY - JOUR
AU - Rapple, Rory
AB -  Reviews stimulating studies open up anew the work of a learned and engaged writer and churchman. They reveal a cultural world firmly rooted in these islands, but looking outward to all of Christendom. They also point the way for further studies of works which originate in distant seventh-century Iona, but still resonate to this day. Máire Herbert University College Cork The Flight of the Earls: Imeacht na nIarlaí. Edited by D. Finnegan, Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Marie-Claire Peters. Pp. 336. ISBN: 9781906271329 (hbk). Derry: Guildhall Press, 2010. £40. DOI: 10.3366/nor.2014.0077 First and foremost this book, in large part funded by Donegal County Council, is very easy on the eye. It is tremendously well designed, and although it lacks an index, the contributions, in both Irish and English, are of such a commendably short length and so well illustrated that the volume works as a coffee-table book. Notwithstanding this, it packs a substantial intellectual and academic punch, while remaining accessible. The volume is split into five sections, the first outlining possible causes of the flight; the second its course; the third the contexts in Ireland, Scotland and continental Europe which provided its backdrop; fourth, the political, social and religious 
TI - The Flight of the Earls: Imeacht na nIarlaí . Edited by D. Finnegan, Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Marie-Claire Peters. Pp. 336. ISBN: 9781906271329 (hbk). Derry: Guildhall Press, 2010. £40.
JO - Northern Scotland
DO - 10.3366/nor.2014.0077
DA - 2014-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/edinburgh-university-press/the-flight-of-the-earls-imeacht-na-niarla-edited-by-d-finnegan-amonn-Edvq0dL92v
SP - 113
EP - 115
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -