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.  

REGULARS

From the Editor

History in the News
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Ó Raghailligh
Dublin Castle’s viceregal apartments as a Red Cross military hospital (1915–19)
Sylvie Kleinman
International O’Neill census launched
C. Coyle
Bite-sized history
Tony Canavan

Letters
The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?
The ‘Castle Document’
Beyond the Liffey and the Somme: Irish soldiers at the Tigris River, 1916
Irish nationalism a liability to the Irish language?
Arthur Griffith
Ulster 1641

Platform
Why I commemorate the Somme
Jason Burke

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Strokestown Park, County Roscommon
Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:
Prison photographs
Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:
Our Lady of Victories, Noeux-les-Mines
Seán Downes

Events

COUNTDOWN TO 2016
Emmet Dalton and Tom Kettle at the Battle of the Somme
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

THEATRE EYE:
Sunder
John Gibney

MUSEUM EYE:
1916 exhibitions
Tony Canavan

Bookworm

The Big Book
Bourke and McBride (eds), The Princeton history of modern Ireland
By James Smyth

Book Reviews
Kennedy, Unhappy the land: the most oppressed people ever, the Irish?
By Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
Bew, Churchill and Ireland
By Martin Mansergh
Keown, First of the small nations. The beginnings of Irish foreign policy in the interwar years, 1919–1932
By Michael Kennedy
McCleery, TOperation Demetrius and its aftermath: a new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75
By Clifford Peeples

Features

EARLY CHRISTIAN TEXTS:
Blathmac—an eighth-century Irish poet in Rome
Peter Harbison

800th ANNIVERSARY:
King John († 1216) and the origins of colonial rule in Ireland
Colin Veach and Tadhg O’Keeffe

NEW IN MANUSCRIPTS:
A Kerry famine journal in Hawaii
Bryan MacMahon

JOURNALISM:
Scandal and anti-Semitism in 1916: Thomas Dickson and The Eye-Opener
Conor Morrissey

REPUTATIONS:
Roger Casement and the history question
Angus Mitchell

REVISION:
Casement tried and tested—the Giles Report on the Black Diaries
Paul Hyde

CENTENARY:
The Somme—the big picture
Jennifer Wellington

CENTENARY:
Five months of failure: the Battle of the Somme
LarJoye

75th ANNIVERSARY
Happy homes and home-craft: Cathal Brugha Street College of Catering
Brian Murphy