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

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020

VOLUME 28 NO. 6

FEATURES

CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2020:

The tánaiste and the crown prince problem

Matthew McGinty

CLASS:

Life downstairs in Newbridge House

Cathal Dowd Smith

RACE:

Tony Small, friend and manservant of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

Laura McKenna

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I:

The Kilmichael ambush and the outer limits of Irish historical revisionism

John Regan

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II:

The curious case of the ‘Sinn Féin typhoid plot’

Michael B. Barry

PARTITION:

The Government of Ireland Act 1920

Cormac Moore

DIASPORA:

Hugh Mahon, the Irishman expelled from the Australian parliament

Jeff Kildea

FOLKLORE:

Food for humans, fairies and the dead at Hallowe’en

Regina Sexton

SOURCES:

The Dublin Port Company photographic archive

Aidan Crawley

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

A piece of commercial art with a political message?

Tony Canavan

Hardiman’s History of Galway 200 years on

John Cunningham

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

Tony Canavan

OBITUARY

Margaret MacCurtain

Thomas O’Loughlin

Letters

Pogrom?

Corrections

Revisionism

Idly?

Frederick Shaw (not Abraham Brewster) in cartoon

Thomas McCabe and slavery

Roger McCorley

Charter schools

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

PLATFORM:

Truth and history

Padraig Yeates

KINDRED LINES:

Tracing Black, Asian, Minority-Ethnic (BAME) and mixed-race people in Ireland c. 1700–1922, part I

Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

Annie Burke’s glasses

Siobhán Doyle

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Egan’s, 31–32 St Patrick’s Street, Cork

Pat Ruane

100 YEARS AGO:

Bloody Sunday

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

Building Ireland: Marino garden suburb

Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE:

Louth County Museum

Tony Canavan

Bookworm

Joe Culley

The Big Book

Kennedy, O’Halpin and Whelan (eds), Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XII: 1961–1965

By Deaglán de Bréadún

Book Reviews

Whelan, May tyrants tremble: the life of William Drennan, 1754–1820

By Tim Murtagh

Walker, Irish history matters: politics, identities and commemoration

By John Gibney

Kinsella, Dublin City University 1980–2020: designed to be different

By Colum Kenny

Fitzgibbon, US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen: domestic politics and the Afghan war

By Angus Mitchell