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.  

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023

VOLUME 31 NO. 5

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

ON THIS DAY

John Gibney

Kay McNulty, pioneering computer programmer

Brian Smyth

Parallel Histories—an innovation in history teaching

Michael Davies

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

Donal Fallon

LETTERS

Croagh Patrick oratory chalice and ciborium hallmarks

Cherryville junction crash

1928: A coinage for Ireland

Kanturk courthouse

Catholicism and French regicide

The Palatines of Wexford

W.P. Ryan

PLATFORM:

Dirty war and its practitioners

Brian Hanley

KINDRED LINES:

The Civil Survey (1654–6)

Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Cliff Cottage, Cullenstown, Co. Wexford

Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:

The Blue Hussars

Lar Joye

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

Edward Fitzgerald’s world tour aboard HMS New Zealand, 1913

Brian McGee

100 YEARS AGO:

The Irish Free State joins the League of Nations

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

Reds! na hÉireann

Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

Film as Art: Brian Desmond Hurst, Ulster Museum

Donal Fallon

Bookworm

Joe Culley

The Big Book

Gibbons, James Joyce and the Irish revolution: the Easter Rising as modern event

By Angus Mitchell

Book Reviews

O’Kane and O’Neill (eds), Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean: interdisciplinary perspectives

By Sylvie Kleinman

Goodbody, The Lead Mines: Ballycorus and Glendalough in the nineteenth century

By Tommy Graham

Ó Faoleán, A broad church: the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, Volume 2: 1980–1989

By Niall Meehan

Coen, O’Donnell and O’Rourke, A Dublin Magdalene laundry: Donnybrook and Church–State power in Ireland

By Sheila Ahern

FEATURES

MANUSCRIPTS:

Irish lords and English rulers

Elizabeth Biggs

WITCHCRAFT:

A ‘villainous meeting’—the Society of Jesus and a witches’ sabbat in seventeenth-century Ireland

Cameron C. Engelbrecht

POETRY & POLITICS:

The omission of Collins from Yeats’s poetic pantheon

Fionnbharr Rodgers

SCHOOLS’ ESSAY COMPETITION:

The Coolfadda ambush, 2 December 1920

Conor Carley

REPUTATIONS:

Éamon de Valera’s mother-and-child home

Colum Kenny

INTERNATIONAL:

Ireland at the League of Nations, 1923–46

Michael Kennedy

IRISH ABROAD:

Agnes Flanagan from Birr—a lonely