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:

 

          British soldier ‘disappeared’ by IRA found 

       Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc 

 

          The Monaghan Spitfire exhibition

 

          ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

 

          BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Tony Canavan                

 

Letters

 

          Independence Day

          Duchy of Lorraine

          Black ’47

          Bandon Valley killings

          The anti-conscription general strike

          When did the War of Independence start?

          Judging the Catholic Church

          Church archives             

 

PLATFORM:

          Hands off Dublin’s twentieth-century architectural heritage!

       Ruth McManus 

 

ARTEFACTS:

          The Bantry Boat

       Lar Joye

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE: 

          Ballysakeery glebe house, Co. Mayo

       David Hicks

 

KINDRED LINES:

          Medical drawings, RCSI

       Fiona Fitzsimons         

 

EVENTS

 

100 YEARS AGO:

          ‘Gaelic Sunday’, 4 August 1918

       Joseph E. A. Connell Jr

 

 

REVIEWS

 

SEEN ON-LINE:

          The Irish Independence Film Collection

       John Gibney

 

MUSEUM EYE:

          ‘National Treasures—a people’s archive’

       Tony Canavan

 

Bookworm

          By Joe Culley

 

The Big Book

 

          King, Michael Davitt after the Land League 1882–1906

          By Conor McNamara

 

Book Reviews

 

          Farrell, The ‘mere Irish’ and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570–1641

          By James O’Neill

 

          Mac Suibhne,The end of outrage: post-Famine adjustment in rural Ireland

          By Emily Mark-FitzGerald

 

          Wills,Lovers and strangers

          By Mary Kenny 

 

          Holohan,Reframing Irish youth in the sixties

          By Tom Inglis 

 

 

FEATURES

 

CHURCH HISTORY:

          The curse of St Laurence O’Toole

       Jesse Harrington 

 

TERCENTENARY:

          Nano Nagle—an unconventional woman

       Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle