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.  

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021

 Volume 29 No. 6

FEATURES

 ANNIVERSARY:

Columba 1500—the extent of our knowledge

Thomas O’Loughlin

 CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2021:

            An inauguration of a MacWilliam Íochtair at Rausakeera, Co. Mayo, during the Nine Years War

Declan Keenan

 TRANSPORT:

            Ireland’s ‘canal navigators’

            Eugene Coyle

HEALTH:

            Vaccination in Ireland: the evolution of a process

            Laurence Geary

SECOND GLANCE:

A noble tribute—Sarah Cecilia Harrison’s portrait of Anna and Thomas Haslam

Hannah Baker

DIPLOMACY:

            The Dáil cabinet’s mission to Belfast, November 1921 to January 1922

            Julitta Clancy

REPUTATIONS:

            Moya Llewelyn Davies—spy, stalker, patriot or fantasist?

            Seán Ryan

MUSIC:

            Delia Murphy—legend of Irish folk music

            Aidan O’Hara

ART:

            ‘Giving a fart in its corduroys’—Irish attitudes to modern art

            Róisín Kennedy

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

Jack B. Yeats: Painting & Memory

Marie Bourke

Staging the Treaty

Theo Dorgan

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

Letters

            Cromwell and Ireland: new perspectives

            Truth Recovery Process

            Civil War dismissed and downplayed?

            Second thoughts

PLATFORM:

            The Treaty—victory or defeat?

Brian Hanley

KINDRED LINES:

            Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution (RLFI)

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

            British Army First World War campaign medals

            Lar Joye

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Poolbeg stacks

Emma Gilleece

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Local authorities and ‘Emergency’ turf-cutting

            Joanne Rothwell

100 YEARS AGO:

            ‘Articles of Agreement’ are signed

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            Songs for While I’m Away

            Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE:

            Irish Museum of Time, Waterford

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Dickson, The first Irish cities: an eighteenth-century transformation

By John Cunningham

Book Reviews

            Beattie (ed.), Donegal Annual: Columban edition

            By Matthew Stout

Gribben, The rise and fall of Christian Ireland

            By Mary Kenny

Eastwood, Samhain: the roots of Halloween

            By Regina Sexton

Earls Fitzgerald, Combatants and civilians in revolutionary Ireland, 1918–1923

            By Mary McAuliffe