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.  

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021

Volume 29 No. 5

 

REGULARS

 

From the Editor

 

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The lasting legacy of the last viceroy

Seán Beattie

Waterways Ireland’s archive goes digital

Nuala Reilly

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

 

Letters

            Patrick Maume and revisionism

            Civil War dismissed and downplayed

            

PLATFORM:

            Kindness, cruelty and the Nine Years’ War

Éamonn Toland

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Barlow House, West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Aisling Durkan

ARTEFACTS:

            Armoured trucks in the Irish War of Independence

            Lar Joye

KINDRED LINES:

            Travel permits 1940–1952

            Fiona Fitzsimons

100 YEARS AGO:

            Plenipotentiaries appointed

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

 

REVIEWS

 

MUSEUM EYE:

            Armagh County Museum

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Bennett, Gillespie and Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: new perspectives

By Micheál Ó Siochrú

Book Reviews

            Maher (ed.), The Irish to the rescue: the tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina’s escape

            By Tony Canavan

            Leerssen (ed.), Parnell and his times

            By Margaret O’Callaghan

Wheatley and Krobb (trans. & ed.), Ireland [1913] by Richard Arnold Bermann

            By Róisín Healy

Deane, Small world: Ireland, 1798–2018

            By Vona Groarke

 

FEATURES

 

NAVAL:

Spanish Armada wrecks on the Irish coast

John Miles

FOLKLORE:

            Swift Nix (Nicks)—an English highwayman and his Irish career

Amy L. Harris

MANUSCRIPTS:

            The commissioning of Gordan O’Neill

            Colum Kenny

AGRICULTURE:

Snapshot of a parish before the Famine

John Keating

MYTHOLOGY:

            ‘The first white man to visit America’—St Brendan in the nineteenth century

            William Ward

CRIME:

            The Canadian trial of the century—the story of ‘cracked Shortis’ 

            Cian Manning

PANDEMIC:

            Revisiting the demography of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Ireland

            Chris Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin

EARLY LIFE:

            Desmond Greaves’s formative years at the Birkenhead Institute, 1925–31

            Michael Quinn

75TH ANNIVERSARY:

            A brief history of the Irish Naval Service

            Daire Brunicardi

PHILATELY:

            The Northern Ireland ‘stamp war’, 1971–2

            Matin Modarressi

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            A mid-eighteenth-century mystery rent-book

            Patria McWalter