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.  

MAY/JUNE 2017

 Volume 25 No. 3

From the Editor

History in the News:

Medieval Mile Museum 

Evelyn Graham 

International Women’s Day at PRONI

Sarah Hunter

On this day

Aodhán Ó Raghailligh

Bite-sized History

Tony Canavan

Letters

Direct provision

Edmund Dwyer Gray senior

Arthur Griffith

Hedge schools

1916 and the battle of the airwaves

Gordon Lewis, Pathé newsreel cameraman

‘Paddy on the make’?

Loyalist backlash?

Platform:

Back to Biafra

Kevin O’Sullivan 

Features

MANUSCRIPTS:

The making of the Book of Fenagh

Brendan Scott

DEMOGRAPHY:

How many people were there in pre-census Ireland?

David Parker

BICENTENARY:

The ingenious Mr Edgeworth (1744–1817)

Tony Lyons

LITERATURE:

‘Altman the Saltman’, Leopold Bloom and James Joyce

Vincent Altman O’Connor

REPUTATIONS:

Ernest Blythe—Orangeman and Fenian

David Fitzpatrick

CENTENARY:

The US Navy at Queenstown

Daire Brunicardi

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:

‘Spies and informers beware!’

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

ANTI-COMMUNISM:

McCarthyism, Catholicism and Ireland

Gerard Madden

Kindred Lines:

Genealogy and DNA

Fiona Fitzsimons

Gems of Architecture: 

Ballindrait Mill

Jon Sass

Artefacts:

William Hickie and the 16th (Irish) Division

Lar Joye

Events

100 YEARS AGO:

Foundation of the New Ireland Assurance Company

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

What’s on Stage:

Shackleton

Tony Canavan

SEEN ON TV:

Flights of angels

Tom Lodge

MUSEUM EYE:

Parks: our shared heritage 

Tony Canavan

Bookworm

The Big Book

Murphy, Ireland’s immortals: a history of the gods of Irish myth

By Angela Bourke

Book Reviews

Metscher, Republicanism and socialism in Ireland: from Wolfe Tone to James Connolly

By Emmet O’Connor

Bury, Buried lives: the Protestants of southern Ireland

By Niall Meehan

Williamson, Anglo-Irish relations in the early Troubles, 1969–1972

By Richard English

O’Donoghue and Harford, Secondary school education in Ireland: history, memories and life stories

By Brian Fleming