• History Ireland March/April 2017


Established in 1993 and now published every two months, each issue of History Ireland features  a wide variety of topics, from the earliest times to the present day, giving a sense of the distant past while offering a contemporary edge. Every article is illustrated with photographs, maps or paintings to provide a vivid impression of the topic.  

MARCH/APRIL 2017

 Volume 25 No. 2


HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Ó Raghailligh
France’s loss but Ireland’s gain
Peter Harbison
1916 and the battle of the airwaves
Eddie Bohan
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
            Tony Canavan
 
 
Letters
Casement’s Black Diaries
Ireland and the Corfu Crisis, 1923
Science and Irish history
Arthur Griffith and anti-Semitism
 
 
PLATFORM:
Ronan Fanning, 1941–2017
Dan Mulhall
 
ARTEFACTS:
The stone that ‘smashed the van’
Lar Joye
 
KINDRED LINES:
Transportation records
Fiona Fitzsimons
 
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
 Rank Silo at Shannon Mills
  Emma Gilleece
 
Events
 
100 YEARS AGO:
Irish National Aid and Volunteers’ Dependants’ Fund
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
 

IDENTITY:
‘A mere Irish man, but good Protestant’: Sir Francis Shane, 1540–1614
Joseph Mannion
 
JACOBITISM:
A poetic correspondence between Charles Wogan and William Tunstall
Richard Maher
 
EDUCATION:
Thomas Davis’s ideas on educating leaders
John Conneally
 
150TH ANNIVERSARY:
 Ulster’s forgotten Fenians, 1858–1867
Kerron Ó Luain
 
PSYCHIATRY:
Myths, madness and insane ears
Brendan Kelly
 
CRANIOLOGY:
The craniology collection in Trinity College, Dublin
Miguel DeArce and René Gapert
 
DIASPORA:
Edmund Dwyer Gray Jr in Tasmania
            Felix M. Larkin
 
CIVIL WAR:
The IRA’s Civil War campaign against Dublin’s cinemas and theatres
Gavin Foster
 
 EMERGENCY:
German internees at the Curragh Camp
Luke Diver

           

SEEN ON TV:
Strange occurrences in a small Irish village
John Gibney
 
MUSEUM EYE:
Crumlin Road Gaol
Tony Canavan
 
Bookworm
 
The Big Book
Urwin, A state in denial: British collaboration with loyalist paramilitaries
By Raymond Murray
 
Book Reviews
Murphy, The life of Dr Thomas Hussey 1746–1803: bishop of Waterford and Lismore
 By Dáire Keogh
Ryan, Death and the Irish: a miscellany
By John McCafferty
Tierney, The doctor’s wife is dead: a peculiar marriage, a suspicious death, and a murder trial in nineteenth-century Ireland
By Dean Jobb
Neary, Dublin 7
By Donal Fallon



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