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.  

REGULARS

From the Editor
 
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
            On this day
Aodhán Ó Raghailligh
150th anniversary of the raid on Ridgeway
Daniel Panneton
Churchill and the Irishman
Trevor White
Bite-sized history
            Tony Canavan
 
 
Letters
            Casements’s Black Diaries
            The Irish and slavery
Thomas à Becket
            An Irish ‘Way of St James’
            Anti-Semitism
            LDF parade in Cork, 1943/4
 
PLATFORM:
            Science and Irish history
Eoin Gill
 
ARTEFACTS:
            ‘Execution of Roger Casement’ medal
            Ian Lawler
 
KINDRED LINES:
Quaker records in Ireland
Fiona Fitzsimons
 
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
            The Athenæum, Enniscorthy
            Sarah Buckley
 
Events
 
COUNTDOWN TO 2016:
            Life in Frongoch
            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
 
 
 
REVIEWS
 
SEEN ON TV:
            The Battle of the Somme on RTÉ
            John Gibney
 
MUSEUM EYE:
            EPIC Ireland
            Tony Canavan
 
Bookworm
 
The Big Book
            Kissane, Nations torn asunder
By Eoin Dillon
 
Book Reviews
            Brown and Ó Clabaigh, Soldiers of Christ: the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller in medieval Ireland
            By Peter Harbison
Egan, The immortal Irishman: the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
            By Dean Jobb
Garvin, The lives of Daniel Binchy, Irish scholar, diplomat, public intellectual
            By Thomas O’Loughlin
            Schmuhl, Ireland’s exiled children: America and the Easter Rising
            By John Gibney
 
 
 
FEATURES
 
RELIGION:
            Hugh II de Lacy and the Cathars
Paul Duffy
 
FOLK MUSIC:
            ‘Old Skibbereen’: Fenian anthem or Famine lament?
            Dan Milner
 
PROPAGANDA:
            French bishops’ mission to Ireland, October 1916
            Oliver O’Hanlon
 
SCHOOLS’ ESSAY COMPETITION:
The Colt Wood railway incident
Adam Murphy
 
LITERATURE:
The Brook Kerith: ‘George Moore’s blasphemy’
Dennis Kennedy
 
POLICING:
            The life and death of Detective Sergeant John Barton
            Padraig Yeates
 
HISTORIOGRAPHY:
            Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev, the first Soviet historian of Ireland
            Maurice J. Casey
 
LITIGATION:
            The scandal of Margaret and Mary Brigid Pearse
            Teresa and Mary Louise O’Donnell
 
IRISH ABROAD:
            The Irish in France during the Occupation
            Isadore Ryan