In this issue.

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

Keeping Celtic Studies alive in Germany

Laura Patz

Offaly Archives

Lisa Shortall

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

Letters

            Aristocracy/landed gentry/ascendancy

            Captain O’Shea—the Limerick connection

            Tom Kettle

            Tone not related to Wolfe

            Appeal for information on Nenagh military history

            Bethany Home latest—ten years and one Commission of Investigation report later

            Partition

PLATFORM:

            Understanding our own ignorance

Patrick Maume

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Scots’ Church, Athy Road, Carlow

Simonas Vilcauskis

KINDRED LINES:

            Directories as a source for family history

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

            1916–21 military service medals

            Lar Joye

100 YEARS AGO:

            The Crossbarry ambush

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            The Hunger: the story of the Irish famine

            Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE:

            Waterford Treasures: a virtual tour

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            O’Halpin and Ó Corráin, The dead of the Irish revolution

By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

Book Reviews

            O’Sullivan Greene, Crowdfunding the revolution: the First Dáil Loan and the battle for Irish independence

            By Paschal Donoghue TD

            Bruce, Ireland’s hope: the ‘peculiar theories’ of James Fintan Lalor

            By Emmet O’Connor

Moylan (ed.), A living voice: the Frank Harte song collection

            By Donal Fallon

MACHNAMH 100

            By Colum Kenny

FEATURES

ART & RELIGION:

St Patrick in Italy

Brenda Moore-McCann

MILITARY:

            The Battle of Culloden

Stephen McGarry

MEDICAL:

            Plus ça change? Epidemic disease and social reaction

            Laurence Geary

MIGRATION:

Dr Richard Blennerhassett and the Wends of Texas

Brian MacMahon

POLICING:

            The Ulster Volunteer Force in police uniform

            Seán Bernard Newman

LOCAL GOVERNMENT:

            Limerick City Night Watch

            Tadhg Moloney

CELEBRITY:

            The ‘Singing Cowboy’ in Ireland

            Ronan Doheny

NUMISMATICS:

            The 1972 Northern Ireland twopence piece

            Mark Stocker

IDENTITY:

            Post-independence perspectives on ‘Irishness’ and identity

            Raymond M. Keogh