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174 BOOK REVIEWS introduced. There is no better guide than this book to the intricacies of Protestant and Catholic Ireland, of Reformation and Counter-Reformation Ireland, of the worlds of children’s burial grounds, the soundscape of keening, the Huguenots, the Moravians, the Quakers, and so on. The journey through the material often brings the reader away from the landscape, leaving it a passive backdrop rather than an active agent in the infolding story, but the richness of the narrative more than compensates. The scholarship on display in this book is impressive by any measure. Whelan’s range is at times simply jaw-dropping. His writing is elegant, although there are instances –‘Irish history is often past and furious’ (p. xv) – where its cleverness is a little too self-admiring. The illus- trations are apposite, and the maps are clear and informative. This is a book to be read and re-read and admired. Tadhg O’Keeffe University College Dublin tadhg.okeeffe@ucd.ie © 2020 Tadhg O’Keeffe https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2018.1776005 Reading the Peak District Landscape, by John Barnett, Historic England/Liverpool University Press, Swindon/Liverpool, 2019, 272pp, 236 illustrations, £30 (Pbk), ISBN-13: 978-1848023796 Reading the Peak District Landscape is an ambitious book, collecting and synthesising the results of numerous survey projects