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 2024.

Volume 32  No. 5

 FEATURES

  REGULARS

3     From the Editor

6     HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Archives, Access and Human Rights

     Catriona Crowe

       Saving Belfast’s Assembly Rooms

     John Gray 

       ON THIS DAY

     Aodhán Crealey

11   BITE-SIZED HISTORY

     Donal Fallon

12   LETTERS

       If it quacks like a duck …

       Cáin Adomnáin today

       The Irish in Britain

       Was Mary Shinkwin Ievers the ‘Miss Ivors’ of Joyce’s ‘The Dead’?

14   PLATFORM:

       The death of Theobald Wolfe Tone—suicide or murder?

     Paddy Cullivan  

31   GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Costello Mortuary Chapel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim 

     Damian Murphy

35   KINDRED LINES: 

       Valuation Office Cancelled Books

     Fiona Fitzsimons

43   ARTEFACTS:

       Shrinking money—rediscovery of rare ten pence coins

     Edmond Barrett 

47   IFI FILM EYE:

       Women in Focus—an archive toolkit

     Anna Rose Garvey

52   LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       The John Ivory Endowed School, New Ross

     Grainne Doran

70   100 YEARS AGO:

       Irish Defence Forces established

     Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

54   SEEN ON TV:

       Invasion: The Normans

     Sylvie Kleinman

56   MUSEUM EYE:

       Iconic Costumes of the Irish Silver Screen, Museum of Style Icons, Newbridge Silverware Visitor Centre

     Donal Fallon

58   Bookworm

       Daragh Fitzgerald

60   The Big Book

       Murtagh and Murtagh, The Irish Jacobite army

       By David Murphy

63   Book Reviews

       Mannion, Anglicizing Tudor Connacht: the expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

       By Simon Egan

       Farrell, So once was I: forgotten tales from Glasnevin Cemetery

       By John Gibney

       Hall and Magennis, Armagh: the Irish revolution, 1912–23

       By Patrick Mulroe

       Foster, Ireland out of England and other inconveniences

       By Ian d’Alton

  FEATURES

16   SEXUALITY:

       Carnal relations and church courts in Tudor Ireland

     Henry A. Jefferies

20   PRINTING:

       George Petrie—a ‘type’ of genius

     Dermot McGuinne

24   MYSTERY:

       A murder on the G.A. Thompson? Thomas Francis Meagher and the Montana Territory, 1865–7

     Ruairí Nolan

28   SPORT:

       ‘A fist fight with the feet’—Ireland’s forgotten folk wrestling traditions

     Ruadhán MacFadden