MARCH/APRIL 2022

 Volume 30 No. 2

REGULARS

 From the Editor

 HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

Francis Place in Ireland

Helen Pierce

Magazine Fort to be restored

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

Letters

            A united Ireland?

            Worst modern sea tragedy

            Dev and the plenipotentiaries

            British First World War medals

 PLATFORM:

            Old boys’ club no longer? Gender equality and the Royal Irish Academy

Clare O’Halloran

ARTEFACTS:

            1798 French flintlock musket

            Lar Joye

KINDRED LINES:

            Militia records

            Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Cork Distilleries bottling plant, North Mall, Cork

Conor English

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Richard Edgeworth’s account books

            Martin Morris

100 YEARS AGO:

            The IRA repudiates the authority of Dáil Éireann

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

RADIO:

            The troublesome nun

            Fionnuala Walsh

THEATRE:

            Máirín Cregan’s Hunger Strike

            Fiona Brennan

SEEN ON TV:

            Violet Gibson—the Irish woman who shot Mussolini

            Donal Fallon

MUSEUM EYE:

            Ireland on the Box, National Photographic Archive

            Tony Canavan

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Vincent (ed.), The letters and charters of Henry II, king of England 1154–1189, vols 1–6

By Jesse Harrington

Book Reviews

            Smith, Icebound in the Arctic: the mystery of Captain Francis Crozier and the Franklin expedition

            By James Bartlett

Connell, The Terror War: the uncomfortable realities of the War of Independence

            By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald

O’Kane, The Northern Ireland peace process: from armed conflict to Brexit

            By Cillian McGrattan

Foster and Smith (eds), The idea of the Union: Great Britain and Northern Ireland

            By Martin Mansergh

FEATURES

MARITIME:

Dingle 1589—a visit by Elizabethan privateers

Hiram Morgan

SLAVERY:

            Irish sugar planters in antebellum Louisiana

Joe Regan

LAND & FEMINISM:

            Marguerite Moore and the Ladies’ Land League

            Niall Whelehan

ART:

            Unframing Margaret Allen, HRHA (1832–1914)

            Derville Murphy

PHYSICAL CULTURE:

‘The strongest woman in the world’—Katie Sandwina’s 1928 tour of Ireland

Conor Heffernan

RACE:

            ‘Dusky Doughboys’—African-American soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Second World War

            Simon Topping

MEMORY:

            The ‘good Old IRA’—remembering republican veterans after 1969

            Jack Hepworth