Features.

GEOGRAPHY:

The Scandinavian impact—a geographical exploration

William J. Smyth

FIRE-FIGHTING:

The role of the Church of Ireland in early fire-fighting

 Pat Poland

HERALDRY:

Hervey Morres and ‘the Montmorency imposture’

Conleth Manning

PENOLOGY:

Early nineteenth-century Irish prisons

Richard Butler

ADMINISTRATION:

The first Irish Department of Finance

Frank Cogan

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:

The targeting of District Inspector Hunt

Neville O’Connell

REPUTATIONS:

Margaret Skinnider

Mary McAuliffe

INTERNATIONAL:

Neither Suvla nor Sedd-ul-Bahr

Merve Dogan Kader and Seán Patrick Smyth

SPORT:

The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956

Cian Manning

SONG:

 ‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’

Michael Halpenny

Regulars

From the Editor

History in the News:

Thomas D’Arcy McGee—Ireland’s lost patriot  

Ian Ashe

St Brigid’s Day Festival celebrates Irish-Australian women

Jeff Gildea 

On this day

Aodhán Crealey

Letters

Irish ‘patriots’

Forgotten revolution: the Limerick Soviet 1919

Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘disillusionment’ with the Soviet Union?

RIC—the North–South dimension

Bite-sized History

Tony Canavan    

Platform:

Spinning the Terror

Sylvie Kleinman 

Gems of Architecture: 

Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo

Damian Murphy                

Artefacts:

Weapons of the RIC (1822–1922) 

Lar Joye

Kindred Lines:

Schulze Marriage Register 

Fiona Fitzsimons               

Events

100 YEARS AGO:

The Black and Tans deployed 

Joseph E. A. Connell Jr

Reviews

RADIO EAR:

History in Residence and The Emergency: creative freedom in wartime Dublin

John Gibney

MUSEUM EYE:

National Photographic Archive

Tony Canavan

Bookworm

By Joe Culley

The Big Book

Simms, Hitler: only the world was enough

By Geoffrey Roberts

Book Reviews

Canning, The Old English in early modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594–1603

By Henry A. Jefferies

Haddick-Flynn, Orangeism: a historical profile

By Geoffrey Bell

Doherty, Irish liberty, British democracy: the third Irish Home Rule crisis, 1909–14

By Martin O’Donoghue

Mulqueen, ‘An alien ideology’: Cold War perceptions of the Irish republican left

By Ruan O’Donnell