Carla King and W. J. McCormack's latest contribution to U.C.D. Press's series, Classics of Irish History, is a much-needed and highly interesting edition of John Devoy's series of articles about Michael Davitt and the 'new departure', originally published in the Gaelic American immediately after Davitt's death, and running from 16 June to 3 November 1906. Devoy's seventeen articles have been supplemented with a critical introduction, Devoy's own obituary of Davitt published in the same newspaper on 9 June, and a series of editorial footnotes that, despite occasional errors (such as the statement that John Boyle O'Reilly escaped from Australia in the Catalpa (p. 157)), will prove valuable to lay readers and non-specialists in the period. Perhaps the footnotes' most useful features are the brief but numerous biographical profiles, and the editors' painstaking identification of almost every nameless Fenian appearing in the narrative.