Ireland's Sea Fisheries is a welcome book that fills a major gap in the scholarship with a thorough, insightful study. Hayes is the first to write a monograph on the subject and to reconstruct Ireland's many fisheries in detail. His book will immediately become the standard reference work on the subject and a major addition to the broader scholarship on early modern Atlantic fishwork, which has focused on the northwest Atlantic and North Sea. ― H-NET REVIEWS: H-OCEANS