'A significant addition to the cultural history of nineteenth-century Ireland: its scholarly scruple is a testament to the importance of treating this vexed period with the kind of mature, fully developed intellectual and conscientious academic approach that Ferguson’s own developing scholarship and long conscientious career fostered', Matthew Campbell, Irish Studies Review.
‘A welcome addition to the to the growing volume of interdisciplinary research on this period, which was fostered by the establishment of the Society for the study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland in 1992’, Marnie Hay, UCD History Review.