The July/August issue of History Ireland will be released on Wednesday 1 July and is available to order now. The contents of this month’s issue are as follows:

ON THIS DAY

·       Aodhán Crealey

·       The cartoonist as outsider: the case of Martyn Turner

by Felix M. Larkin

·       Red Hugh O’Donnell, Tirconnell’s missing lord

by James O’Neill

LETTERS

·       Hugh son of Connor MacEgan/Aodh mac Conchobhuir Mhic Aodhagáin

·       Isaac Butt

·       What about the Charter Schools, Houses of Industry and Foundling Hospitals?

·       Connaught Rangers mutineer John Miranda

·       The Irish Bulletin

·       Record Tower etching

·       Margaret Skinnider

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

·       Tony Canavan

PLATFORM

·       Revisionists—they haven’t gone away, you know

by Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh

ARTEFACTS:

·       The Order of Liberators

by Declan Barron

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

·       Gloster Arch, Co. Offaly

by Rachel McKenna

KINDRED LINES

·       Manifests of alien passengers

by Fiona Fitzsimons

100ARS AGO

·       Restoration of Order in Ireland Act,

by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

SEEN ON TV

·       Píopaire,

by Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE

·       Creative women of Ireland: artists and writers from the archives, Royal Irish Academy on-line exhibition

by Tony Canavan

BOOKWORM

The Big Book

·       Loeber, Irish houses and castles 1400–1700, by Arnold Horner

Book Reviews

·       Birth of the border: the impact of partition in Ireland (Cormac Moore)

·       Without a dog’s chance: the nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920–25 (James A Cousins)
by Martin Mansergh

·       The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings, AD 800–1060 (Darren McGettigan)
by Seán Duffy 

·       Journeys of Faith: Stories of Pilgrimage from Medieval Ireland (Louise Nugent)

by Meredith Cutrer

·       Ireland’s Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-speaking World, 1829–1914 (Colin Barr)

by Oliver P. Rafferty SJ

·       The intelligence war against the IRA (Thomas Leahy)

by Patrick Mulroe

FEATURES

SAINTS

·       St Edmund: patron saint of Ireland?, Francis Young

HEALTH

Pandemic cholera in Belfast, 1832, Gillian Allmond

MILITARY

Arming the Fenians, Robert Delaney

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I

The agrarian movement of 1920, Terry Dunne

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II

Michael Collins and the British press, Alison Martin

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE III

Britain’s ‘disappeared, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IV

The Royal Navy in the War of Independence, Daire Brunicardi

SOCIAL MOBILITY

The Boyd Barretts and the new Irish statem, Colum Kenny

MILITARY SERVICE PENSIONS COLLECTION

‘Pensions for nothing?’—the case of Patrick James Doherty, by Robert McEvoy