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.

CONTENTS

From the Editor

 

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The ‘healing clay’ of Boho

Eugene Dunphy

The ‘Queen of Ireland’: portrait of Emily, duchess of Leinster

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

 

 

Letters

            Was the War of Independence necessary?

            ‘Keeper of the Flame’

            The great cover-up: the truth about the death of Michael Collins

            P.S. Gilmore: Ireland’s first superstar

 

 

PLATFORM:

            Soloheadbeg—vindicating a democratic mandate for independence

Martin Mansergh

 

KINDRED LINES:

            Registers of Licences to pass beyond the seas, 1573–1677

            Fiona Fitzsimons

 

ARTEFACTS:

            An unusual souvenir of the Boer War

            Stephen Callaghan

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Sligo Gaol

Siobhán Ryan

 

Events

 

100 YEARS AGO:

            Countess Markievicz appointed Minister for Labour

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

 

 

 

REVIEWS

 

SEEN ON TV:

            Election ’18

            John Gibney

 

MUSEUM EYE:

            Garda Museum, Dublin Castle

            Tony Canavan

 

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

 

The Big Book

            Ohlmeyer (ed.),Cambridge History of Ireland, Vol. II: 1550–1730 

By Hiram Morgan

 

Book Reviews

            Horner,Mapping Laois from the 16th to the 21st century

            By Matthew Stout

Whelan,Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland: from Patrick to present

            By David Dickson 

Woods,Bodenstown revisited: the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, its monuments and its pilgrimages

            ByAengus Ó Snodaigh

Ó Beacháin,From partition to Brexit

            By Seán Donlon 

 

 

 

FEATURES

 

PLANTATION:

Essex’s ‘Enterprise’

David Heffernan

 

FOLKLORE:

            Thady McMahon, Eugene O’Curry and singing beggars in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin

Ciarán McCabe

 

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES:

            The creation of the Irish National Foresters Benefit Society, 1877

            Joe Fodey

 

POLITICS:

            H.T. Barrie—the forgotten man of Ulster politics?

            Aaron Callan

 

DIPLOMACY:

The making of an Irish nuncio: Paschal Robinson OFM

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

 

PENOLOGY:

            Mary Size (1883–1959)—forgotten Irish pioneer of British penal reform

            Ruairí Ó hAodha

 

AVIATION:

            Col. James Fitzmaurice—Ireland’s greatest aviator

            Teddy Fennelly

 

MILITARY:

            The Glen of Imaal disaster, 1941

            Terence O’Reilly

 

REPUTATIONS:

            ‘Not another book about Dev!’

            David McCullough