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 2022

Volume 30 No. 4

From the Editor

 

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

 

       The Casement memorial statue and the ‘nightmare of History’

 

       ‘The Treaty, 1921: Records from the Archives’

 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

 

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon

 

Letters

       Truth Recovery Process

 

PLATFORM:

       Redeeming Dev, damning Griffith: Pakenham’s Peace by ordeal

       Colum Kenny

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Le Poer Tower, Portlaw, Co. Waterford 

       Damian Murphy

 

 

KINDRED LINES: 

       Finding burial records

       Fiona Fitzsimons

 

ARTEFACTS:

       Meadb—steam locomotive no. 800

       Lar Joye

 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       ‘Archives of detention’ in Wexford County Archive for the revolutionary period

       Gráinne Doran

 

100 YEARS AGO:

       Deaths of Irish patriots: Brugha, Griffith, Collins

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

 

REVIEWS

 

 

SEEN ON TV:

       Ireland’s dirty laundry

       Sylvie Kleinman

 

MUSEUM EYE:

       Inclusive Global Histories, Ulster Museum, Belfast

       Briony Widdis

 

Bookworm

       Joe Culley

 

 

The Big Book

 

       Devoy, Cummin, Brunt, Bartlett and Kandrot (eds), The Coastal Atlas of Ireland

       By David Murphy

 

Book Reviews

 

       Ellis, Ireland’s English Pale, 1470–1550: the making of a Tudor region

       By Ruth Canning

 

       Murphy, ‘The first national museum’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century

       By Tony Canavan

 

       Kavanagh, The Irish assassins: conspiracy, revenge and the murders that stunned an empire

       By Barry Walsh

 

       Ó Drisceoil, Utter disloyalist: Tadgh Barry and the Irish revolution 

       By Brian Hanley

 

FEATURES

 

 

CHURCH ART:

       The misericords of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick

       Charlotte Murphy

 

LANDED GENTRY:

       English Catholic landlords in early modern Ireland—the Tasburghs and Cong Abbey estate

       John Bergin

 

REPUTATIONS:

       The duel between ‘Danny’ and ‘Dizzy’

       John Rodden

 

NEW IN MANUSCRIPTS:

       Evangelical mission pivots to landlord in Famine Achill   

       Patricia Byrne

 

MEDICAL:

       Tea mania

       Ian Miller

 

IMPERIALISM:

       Bram Stoker’s ‘Great Game’?

       Martin Greene

 

PUBLISHING:

       Ireland’s Own—‘healthy fireside reading’

       Nicholas Rossiter