The September/October 2020  issue of History Ireland  is available to order now. The contents of this month’s issue are as follows:

MILITARY:

The marquis de Boisseleau and the ‘Battle of the Breach’ at the first siege of Limerick, 1690

Pádraig Lenihan

LEGAL:

            Abraham Brewster—from legal obscurity to lord chancellor

Rob Christie

FIRST WORLD WAR:

            James Murray—a life less ordinary

            John Murray

SOURCES:

            Facts and fallacies of the Belfast pogrom

            Kieran Glennon

MUSIC:

Music for MacSwiney

Axel Klein

ADVERTISING:

            Marketing the Free State in Britain

            Billy Shortall

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:

            Gregory and the Swanzy riots, 1920

            Ciaran Toal

PHILOSOPHY:

            G.E.M. Anscombe—Irish-born philosopher

            John Hayes

50 YEARS ON:

            Charles J. Haughey and the Arms Crisis

            Stephen Kelly

WHAT IF?:

            The 1974 Ulster Workers’ Council strike and fears of British withdrawal

            Ian Wood

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

Four Courts Press at 50

James Kelly

Grangegorman Histories: honouring the past

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

Letters

            Collins killed in action, not assassinated

            Griffith in Longford (not Sligo)

            Martin Haverty (1809–87), historian, journalist, writer

            The shooting of DI Perceval Lea-Wilson

            A new mutation of revisionism

            Repatriating the remains of Patrick Sarsfield

            Maurin Mitchell, Storm over Spain (1937)

            Correction

PLATFORM:

            Clean hands? Ireland, slavery and the slave-trade

Laurence Fenton

KINDRED LINES:

            Army discharge records

            Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

SS Creteboom, Ballina, Co. Mayo

Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:

            The Universal Carrier

            Lar Joye

Events

100 YEARS AGO:

            Terence MacSwiney dies on hunger strike

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            Hawks and Doves—the Crown and Ireland’s War of Independence

            Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE:

            Decade of Centenaries pop-up Women’s Museum

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Nuttall, Different and the same: a folk history of Protestants in independent Ireland

By Ida Milne

Book Reviews

            Kelleher, The alliance of pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century

            By Eamon Darcy

Urquhart, Irish divorce: a history

            By Mary Kenny

O’Donoghue and O’Doherty, Irish speakers and schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the present

            By Tony Lyons

Heney, The Arms Crisis of 1970: the plot that never was

            By Thomas Leahy