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 2024

Volume 32  No. 3

REGULARS

3          From the Editor

6          HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The Kerlogue rescue, December 1943

Fran O’Rourke

Early medieval Ireland at the Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Elizabethanne Boran

11       BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Donal Fallon

12       LETTERS

            John King, John Noone and John Alderdice

            Daniel O’Connell in The House of Commons, 1833

            Pearse on Tone

            Palestine and the Decade of Centenaries

14       PLATFORM:

            A Catholic cathedral for Dublin?

Diarmaid Ferriter

19       ARTEFACTS:

Last of the Wild Geese

Lar Joye

23       KINDRED LINES:

            Jewish records

            Fiona Fitzsimons

27       GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            Birr Castle, Co. Offaly

            Damian Murphy

35       IFI FILM EYE:

            Guinness is good for you

            Saskia Vermeulen

50       LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Travelling the turnpikes—early toll-road records

            Karen de Lacey

70       100 YEARS AGO:

            Ernest Blythe cuts the old-age pension

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

52       SEEN ON TV:

            Andrew Trimble: for Ulster and Ireland

            Sylvie Kleinman

54       WHAT’S ON STAGE

            John B. Keane’s Sive—exposing Irish society

            Fiona Brennan

56       MUSEUM EYE:

            Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham

            Donal Fallon 

58       Bookworm

            Daragh Fitzgerald

60       The Big Book

            Ohlmeyer, Making empire: Ireland, imperialism and the early modern world

By Hiram Morgan

63       Book Reviews

            Fenlon and Maguire, Merchants and magnates in early modern Kilkenny

            By Eoin Swithin Walsh

Howlin, Barristers in Ireland: an evolving profession since 1921

            By James Meighan

Hanley, Workers, politics and labour relations in independent Ireland, 1922–46

            By Brian Girvin

            Traynor, General Eoin O’Duffy: the political life of an Irish firebrand

            By Brian Hanley

FEATURES

16       EDUCATION:

Thomas Orde-Powlett (1746–1807)—a snapshot of his education plan for Ireland

Tony Lyons

20       REPUTATIONS:

William Sharman Crawford and the revival of Ulster radicalism

Peter Gray

24       POLITICS:

The 1865 County Louth general election and the intervention of a dabbler

            Brian Hopkins

28       LITERATURE:

Ulysses as history

Daniel Mulhall

32       CELTIC REVIVAL:

Antiquarians on the Hill of Uisneach

Angus Mitchell

36       DIASPORA I:

            Desmond Greaves and the Connolly Association’s three marches across England, 1961–2

Michael Quinn

40       DIASPORA II:

            The Irish in Britain—the impact of the Troubles

            Brian Harvey

44       RACE:

            Ireland and ‘whiteness’ since independence

            Van Gosse

48       AVIATION:

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