• History Ireland May/June 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.  

MAY/JUNE 2017

 Volume 25 No. 3


From the Editor

History in the News:
Medieval Mile Museum 
Evelyn Graham 
International Women’s Day at PRONI
Sarah Hunter

On this day
Aodhán Ó Raghailligh

Bite-sized History
Tony Canavan

Letters
Direct provision
Edmund Dwyer Gray senior
Arthur Griffith
Hedge schools
1916 and the battle of the airwaves
Gordon Lewis, Pathé newsreel cameraman
‘Paddy on the make’?
Loyalist backlash?

Platform:
Back to Biafra
Kevin O’Sullivan 

Features
MANUSCRIPTS:
The making of the Book of Fenagh
Brendan Scott

DEMOGRAPHY:
How many people were there in pre-census Ireland?
David Parker

BICENTENARY:
The ingenious Mr Edgeworth (1744–1817)
Tony Lyons

LITERATURE:
‘Altman the Saltman’, Leopold Bloom and James Joyce
Vincent Altman O’Connor

REPUTATIONS:
Ernest Blythe—Orangeman and Fenian
David Fitzpatrick

CENTENARY:
The US Navy at Queenstown
Daire Brunicardi

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
‘Spies and informers beware!’
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

ANTI-COMMUNISM:
McCarthyism, Catholicism and Ireland
Gerard Madden

Kindred Lines:
Genealogy and DNA
Fiona Fitzsimons

Gems of Architecture: 
Ballindrait Mill
Jon Sass

Artefacts:
William Hickie and the 16th (Irish) Division
Lar Joye

Events

100 YEARS AGO:
Foundation of the New Ireland Assurance Company
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews
What’s on Stage:
Shackleton
Tony Canavan
SEEN ON TV:
Flights of angels
Tom Lodge
MUSEUM EYE:
Parks: our shared heritage 
Tony Canavan
Bookworm

The Big Book
Murphy, Ireland’s immortals: a history of the gods of Irish myth
By Angela Bourke
Book Reviews
Metscher, Republicanism and socialism in Ireland: from Wolfe Tone to James Connolly
By Emmet O’Connor
Bury, Buried lives: the Protestants of southern Ireland
By Niall Meehan
Williamson, Anglo-Irish relations in the early Troubles, 1969–1972
By Richard English
O’Donoghue and Harford, Secondary school education in Ireland: history, memories and life stories
By Brian Fleming  





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