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.  

History Ireland  July/August 2023

 Volume 31 No. 4

REGULARS

  From the Editor

 HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

             ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

What’s in a title?

Denis Fahey

‘With an Artist’s Eye: the Photography of Mary Alice Young of Glengorm Castle, Ballymena’

N. Mullen

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Donal Fallon

LETTERS

            Brian Nelson

            James Glynn and Eamonn Ceannt

            John O’Hagan

            James Joyce’s Huguenots

            The enigmatic Mr Delvin

            English or Normans?

PLATFORM:

            Reflections on Irish national flags, 1798–1848

Sylvie Kleinman

KINDRED LINES:

            The Palatines in Ireland

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

Croagh Patrick oratory chalice and ciborium

Oliver Doyle 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            The American Houses, 1–6 Annaville, Cork

            Damian Murphy

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Mary Leadbeater of Ballitore

            Karel Kiely

100 YEARS AGO:

            Cumann na nGaedheal wins the 1923 general election

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            The Agreement and Lyra

            Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

            ‘Hearts ne’er waver’: the women prisoners of the Irish Civil War and Voices, Kilmainham Gaol

            Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

The Big Book

            Murphy, Ó Siochrú and Peacey (eds), The letters, writings, and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, Vol. 2

By Jane Ohlmeyer

Book Reviews

            Crooks and Mohr (eds), Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

            By James Meighan

            Kinsella, The Irish Defence Forces 1922–2022: servant of the nation

            By Thomas O’Loughlin

McGreevy, Catholicism: a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

            By Gerard O’Sullivan

Bourke and Gallagher (eds), The political thought of the Irish revolution

            By Brian Hanley

FEATURES

WOMEN IN HISTORY:

Rebel women in Tudor Ireland—some case-studies

Henry A. Jefferies

SECOND GLANCE:

            Who painted Spice Bag’s original?

Niamh O’Sullivan

PROPAGANDA:

Pat and the Land War

            Michael de Nie

MEDIA:

‘Years of storm and charm’—W.P. Ryan and the Irish Nation

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

AVIATION:

            ‘A buzz in the air’—first flights to Ireland, April 1912

            Peadar Slattery

MILITARY:

            James McLoughlin—from British Army gunner to director of artillery in the Irish Defence Forces

            Mark McLaughlin

SCIENCE:

            Erwin Schrödinger—scientist, Dubliner … and more

            Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock

SPORT:

            Hosting ‘the tools of Tito’—Ireland v. Yugoslavia, 19 October 1955

            James Quinn

COLLUSION:

            Brian Nelson—Britain’s agent

            Margaret Urwin