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.

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From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
The Irish History Online database
Bernadette Cunningham
Frank Flood and the Drumcondra ambush
Seán Ryan
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan

Letters
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington review
Irish nationalism and Zionism
Women’s suffrage, hunger strikes and Irish republicans
Redmond and the National Volunteers
Yeats and Irish coins
‘Papist’ King Billy mystery solved
Dunmanway massacre sectarian?
Donnchadh Ó Corráin and F.J. Byrne

Platform
Church archives—private or public records?
Catriona Crowe

KINDRED LINES:
DNA as a source for family history
Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
10 Mill Street, Dublin 8
John Beattie

ARTEFACTS:
Opposing conscription
Lar Joye

Events

100 YEARS AGO:
John Redmond dies
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

SEEN ON TV:
The Crown
John Gibney

MUSEUM EYE:
Drogheda Museum
Tony Canavan

Bookworm
By Joe Culley

The Big Book
O’Toole, Judging Shaw
By Peter Gahan

Book Reviews
Kelly, Food rioting in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the moral economy and the Irish crowd
By Eoin Dillon
Howlin, Juries in Ireland: laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century
By Dean Jobb
Dorr, Sunningdale: the search for peace in Northern Ireland
By Cillian McGrattan

Features

DIASPORA:
Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones, 1877–1968
Arnold Horner 

REFUGEES:
‘Republicans seeking asylum’
Isadore Ryan

BORDERS:
Some Irish borders
Cormac Bourke 

WHAT’S NEW IN MSS:
Michael Collins’ jail journal, 2–21 April 1918
Phelim Brady

LABOUR: 
The 23 April 1918 general strike against conscription
Padraig Yeates 

POLITICS/IDENTITY:
‘A Protestant Sinn Féiner’
Quincey Dougan

SOURCES:
Dependency claims for the Civil War executed in the Military Service (1916–1923) Pensions Collection 
Michael Keane

SOLIDARITY:
Irish women activists and the struggle for Indian independence
Kate O’Malley

EMERGENCY:
Civil defence in Ireland 1939– 45
Pat Poland