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.  

September/October  2022

Volume 30 No. 5

3    From the Editor

6    HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Dating Gaelic MSS

       Pádraig Ó Macháin

       Documents on Irish Foreign Policy—a user’s guide

       John Gibney 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

11  BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

12  Letters

       Kilmichael: the life and afterlife of an ambush

       Michael Collins a dictator? 

       The ‘great game’ 

       Correction 

       Henry Wilson

       Bantry in the Civil War 

14  PLATFORM:

       ‘Royal Irish Constabulary Special Reserve’

       D.M. Leeson 

39  ARTEFACTS:

       How to play Gaelic football (1914)

       Siobhán Doyle 

47  GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Heywood Gardens, Ballinakill, Co. Laois  

       Damien Murphy

51  KINDRED LINES: 

       Evidence in folklore for Irish family history

       Fiona Fitzsimons

52  LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       Bridging the distance—intergenerational administration in Sligo

       Corinne Herward 

70  100 YEARS AGO:

       W.T. Cosgrave takes office and introduces the constitution

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

54  SEEN ON TV:

       Nazi sa Gaeltacht

       Sylvie Kleinman

56  MUSEUM EYE:

       Original Sins, National Gallery of Ireland

       Donal Fallon 

58  Bookworm

       Joe Culley

60  The Big Book

       Toibín (ed.), One hundred years of James Joyce’s Ulysses

       By Daniel Mulhall

63  Book Reviews

       Covington, The Devil from over the sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland 

       By Guy Beiner

       Aiken, Spiritual wounds: trauma testimony & the Irish Civil War 

       By Colum Kenny

       Mulvagh and Purcell (eds), Eoin MacNeill: the pen and the sword 

       By Patrick Maume 

       Padbury, Mary Hayden, Irish historian and feminist, 1862–1942

       By Eamonn O’Flaherty 

  FEATURES

16  CELTIC MONASTICISM:

       Aislinge Meic Con Glinne—an early medieval ‘vision’ of Cork

       Henry A. Jefferies 

20  MEDICINE:

       A precious bodily fluid—blood, the Irish connection

       Shaun R. McCann

24  PHILANTHROPY: 

       Lionel de Rothschild and the Great Irish Famine 

       Norbert Götz

28  CRIME:

       Murder at the Broadstone terminus

       Brian Griffin 

32  POLITICS: 

       Who speaks for Ulster? Similarities between elections in Derry 1913 and Northern Ireland 2022

       M. C. Rast

36  REPUTATIONS:

       The many parts of Daisy Bannard Cogley