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.  

July/August 2021

Volume 29 No. 4

Regulars

 From the Editor

 History in the News

The wreck of HMS Wasp, 1884

Tom Sigafoos

 The Reids of Ramelton, Jamaica,

Glasgow and Belfast

Dermot Scott

 On this day

Aodhán Crealey

 Bite-sized History

 Tony Canavan

 

Letters

            Patrick Maume and revisionism

            ‘Champion of the Slaves’

            ‘The failings of past generations’?

            Pewter cup

            Teaching Council of Ireland history requirement

 

OBITUARY:

            Seamus Deane

            By Kevin Whelan

 

Platform:

            The ever-complicated relationship between Ireland and the UK

            Aileen Bowe

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            Smokehouse at Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon

            Damian Murphy

 

ARTEFACTS: 

            British Army armoured cars in the War of Independence       Lar Joye

 

KINDRED LINES:

            The 1939 Registers

            Fiona Fitzsimons

 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            The Barton Papers in Wicklow County Archives

            Catherine Wright

 

100 YEARS AGO:

            The Truce and preliminary negotiations between de Valera and Lloyd George

            Joseph E. A. Connell Jr

 

  Reviews

 

 

What’s on Stage:

            Terence MacSwiney—playwright and patriot

            Fiona Brennan

 

SEEN ON TV:

            Spotlight: A contested centenary

            Donal Fallon

 

MUSEUM EYE:

            Carlingford Heritage Centre

            Tony Canavan

 

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

 

The Big Books

 

            Parkinson, A difficult birth: the early years of Northern Ireland, 1920–25; 

            Magill, Political conflict in east Ulster 1920–22: revolution and reprisal

            By Seán Bernard Newman

 

Book Reviews

 

            Martyn, The tribes of Galway, 1124–1642

            By Andreas Boldt

 

            Kinmonth, Irish country furniture and furnishings, 1700–2000

            By John Gibney

 

            Milligan, Painting Dublin 1886–1949: visualising a changing city

            By Sylvie Kleinman

 

            Collins and Meehan, Saving the state: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar  

            By Barry Walsh

 

 

Features

 

 

MEDIEVAL HERITAGE:

            The remnants of William Marshal’s lordship in Leinster today

            John Marshall

 

PIONEER:

            ‘Deaf Liberator’—the life and times of Francis Maginn, 1861–1918

            Noel O’Connell

 

CARTOGRAPHY:

            Mapping for wheels—maps for Ireland’s first cycling revolution, 1880–1920

            Arnold Horner

 

ASSASSINATION:

            The Fenian plot to kill the future King George V

            Dean Jobb

 

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I:

            The rebel priests of Mullagh—Fr Pat Gaynor, Fr Michael McKenna and the War of Independence

            Áine Hensey

 

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II:

            ‘We English protest’—Margaret Buckmaster’s peace crusade           Eugene Dunphy

 

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE III:

            The 1921 elections to the Northern Ireland parliament

            Elaine Callinan

 

CLASS & COLONIALISM:

            The Leinster Regiment and the Malabar rebellion of 1921—‘another Irish question’

            Terry Dunne