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

Reclaiming the forgotten church of St Thomas à Beckett in Waterford City

Damien McLellan

DMP Arrest Books now available on-line

Bite-sized history

            Tony Canavan

Letters

            Casement’s Black Diaries

            Hugh II de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade

Arthur Griffith and anti-Semitism

PLATFORM:

            Remembering the First World War, Ireland and historians

Thomas O’Loughlin

ARTEFACTS:

            Lord chancellor’s coach

            Lar Joye

KINDRED LINES:

Convert Rolls 1703–1845 and Catholic Qualification Rolls 1774–1845

Fiona Fitzsimons

3GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            Echlin Buildings, Dublin 8

            Ciarán Wallace

Events

COUNTDOWN TO 2016:

            Release of prisoners, Christmas 1916

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            A doctor’s sword

            John Gibney

THEATRE EYE

            Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme

            Eamon O’Flaherty

FILM EYE

            Bobby Sands: 66 Days

            Breandán Mac Suibhne

MUSEUM EYE:

            Creative Centenaries #Making History 1916

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

The Big Book

            Paseta, Uncertain futures: essays about the Irish past for Roy Foster

By Shane Nagle

Book Reviews

            Brown, Art of the islands: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking visual culture c. 450–1050

            By Peter Harbison

McCormack, Enigmas of sacrifice: a critique of Joseph M. Plunkett and the Dublin insurrection of 1916

            By Eoin Dillon

Griffith and Wallace, Grave matters: death and dying in Dublin 1500 to the present

            By Conor Dodd

            Rowley, More than concrete blocks: Dublin city’s twentieth-century buildings and their stories, volume I, 1900–40

            By Mary Davies

FEATURES

CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2016:

            James IV, the O’Donnells of Tyrconnell and the road to Flodden

Simon Egan

MIGRATION:

            The enigma of the ‘French’ linen-weavers of Cootehill and Swinford

            Michael Brabazon

NAVAL:

            The French fleet at Bantry Bay, 1796

            Stephen McGarry

EDUCATION:

The hedge schools of Ireland

Tony Lyons

VEXILLOLOGY:

Summoning her children to which flag?

Emily Cullen

VISUAL CULTURE:

            Greeting the nation—the Irish Christmas card

            Teresa Breathnach

BOOK HISTORY:

            A First World War soldier’s reading list

            Laurence Fenton

SECTARIANISM:

            The St Johnston riot of 1972

            Brian Hanley