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.  

MAY/JUNE 2022

Volume 30 No. 3

FEATURES

THEATRE:

Aladdin and the blind Irish playwright John O’Keeffe (1747–1833)

Lynda A. O’Keeffe

REPUTATIONS:

‘A notable personage and a freeman of the city’—the funeral of Richard ‘Boss’ Croker in May 1922

Martin O’Donoghue

FRANCHISE:

Through the eyes of British feminism—the Treaty, equal franchise and civil war

Margaret Ward

ADMINISTRATION:

The Land Registry and the ghost of ‘Southern Ireland’

Tim Bowmer

MILITARY:

The battle of the Belleek/Pettigo triangle, May/June 1922

Seán Bernard Newman

BEYOND 2022:

The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland: a century of recovery from the 1922 Four Courts blaze—and beyond

Peter Crooks, Zoë Reid and Ciarán Wallace

EMERGENCY:

From Ballycroy to Buchenwald—the double life of Patrick Sweeney

Isadore Ryan

BACKGROUND TO 2022 INVASION:

Ukraine—a brief history

Hiram Morgan

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

A most proper verdict—an exhibition exploring attitudes to crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Mid- and East Antrim

Rachel Newell

The Polish refugee logician—Professor Jan Łukasiewicz in Ireland, 1946–56

Jacek J. Jadacki and Eoin Kinsella

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

Donal Fallon

Letters

Truth Recovery Process

Irish female famine orphans in colonial Australia

US army graves

Maynooth acknowledgement

Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, ignored?

Lady Aberdeen’s poplin curtains

Tom Barry and the Provisional IRA

De Valera and the plenipotentiaries

PLATFORM:

A people’s progress—how independent Ireland delivered on the promise of her people’s well-being

Mark Henry

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

The Maudlins Pyramids, Naas, Co. Kildare

Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:

The Irish in the 1921 census of England and Wales

Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

Flag of South Africa from the 1932 Tailteann Games

Siobhán Doyle

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

St Joseph’s Hospital, Limerick

Jacqui Hayes

100 YEARS AGO:

The Civil War begins

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

One hundred years of Ulysses

Sylvie Kleinman

SEEN ON FILM:

Belfast

Fergus Whelan

MUSEUM EYE:

‘—Love, says Bloom’, Museum of Literature Ireland

Donal Fallon

Bookworm

Joe Culley

The Big Book

McGreevy, Great hatred: the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP

By John M. Regan

Book Reviews

Frame, Plantagenet Ireland

By Simon Egan

Morrison, Kilmichael: the life and afterlife of an ambush

By Gerry White

Comerford, On dangerous ground: a memoir of the Irish revolution

By Angus Mitchell

Boran, Challenge to power: Nixie Boran (1904–1971), freedom and the Castlecomer coal miners

By John Cunningham