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 2022

Volume 30 No. 6

 From the Editor

History in the News:

            Estella Solomons: Still Moments

            Niamh MacNally

            New on-line documentary on the Battle of Benburb

            John Gibney 

            On this day

            Aodhán Crealey

Bite-sized History

            Donal Fallon 

Letters

            Commemorating the RIC

            Pathological optimism?

            Who speaks for Ulster?

            Sligo’s Noble Six

            An ancient Ulster tradition

            Menstrual blood

Platform:

            The Irish Land Commission records, 1881–1992—a case for the digitisation of them all

            Terence Dooley  

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            St John’s Church, John Street, Kilkenny  

            Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES: 

            Outrage Reports

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

            Bás Beatha—surviving a nuclear war in Ireland

            Lar Joye

Local Archives:

            Gweedore Hotel visitors’ books, 1842–74

            Niamh Brennan 

100 YEARS AGO:

            Erskine Childers executed

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  Reviews

SEEN ON TV:

            Ardal O’Hanlon: tomb raider

            Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

            GAA Museum, Croke Park

            Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Keogh, Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century: diaspora, diplomacy, dictatorship, Catholic mission and the Falklands crisis

            By Michael Kennedy 

Book Reviews

            Wilson, Canadian spy story: Irish revolutionaries and the secret police

            By Dean Jobb

            Ó Corráin and Hanley, Cathal Brugha: ‘an indomitable spirit’ 

            By Gerard Shannon

            Travers, Donegal: the Irish revolution, 1912–23 

            By John Dorney

            Fitzpatrick and O’Dowd (eds), Sisters: nine families of sisters who made a difference

            By Mary Kenny

 Features

LEGAL:

            From Runnymede to County Meath—Magna Carta and Magna Carta Hiberniae

            James K. Meighan

CHIEFS’ PRIZE:

            ‘No mean diplomat’: the gift exchange practices of Shane O’Neill, a Renaissance Gaelic lord

            Melissa Sheils

REPUTATIONS: 

            Colonel Ned Despard, the Irishman hanged in London for high treason in 1803—traitor or martyr? 

            Teddy Fennelly

BEETHOVEN AND IRELAND:

            Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’—a possible Irish connection

            Andreas Boldt 

FAMINE RELIEF: 

            The American dollars that saved Ireland in 1880

            Evan Comerford

CENTENARY:

            Peace, partition and the revolutionary mind—the ineffable friendship of Erskine Childers and Alice Stopford Green 

            Angus Mitchell 

DIASPORA:

            Services for 1950s Irish emigrants—battleground for Church, State and communism           Brian Harvey 

INTERNATIONAL: 

            Ireland and the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 

            John Mulqueen

DIPLOMACY: 

            Escape from Biafra—an Irish diplomat’s account of an evacuation, 1967

            John Gibney 

LANGUAGE: 

            One hundred years of Irish language policy

            John Walsh