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 2024

Volume 32  No. 4

 FEATURES

EARLY CHRISTIANITY:

       Egyptian hermits and Irish high crosses

     Meredith Cutrer and Colleen M. Thomas

 

WEATHER:

       Extremes of weather recorded in the Annals of Connacht, 1224–1562

     Charlotte Murphy

 

LEGAL:

       Afterlives of the ‘Brehon laws’

     John Biggins

 

SCIENCE:

       John Tyndall’s Belfast Address, 1874

     Brian Smyth

 

SPORT I:

       The rise and fall of the ‘Winged Fist’

     Patrick R. Redmond

 

CENTENARY:

       ‘Not a weapon for soldiers to use’—Gerald Boland and the 1923 Republican hunger strike

     Stephen Kelly

 

SPORT II:

       J.J. Keane, ‘the hot-headed Limerick man’, and the 1924 Paris Olympics

     Gerry O’Sullivan

 

HERITAGE:

       The end of an era—the auction at Johnstown Castle, 1944

     Matt Wheeler and Duncan Laurence

 

 

REGULARS

 

From the Editor

 

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

 

       How many died in the Irish Civil War?

     John Dorney

 

       Sarah Purser—a pivotal figure in Irish art

     Marie Bourke 

 

       ON THIS DAY

     Aodhán Crealey

 

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

     Donal Fallon

 

LETTERS

       Remember ’48

       St Brigit and Faughart, Co. Louth

       Ulysses as history

       Loughgall ambush

       Daniel Noel Kissane—an appreciation

 

PLATFORM:

       The Law of the Innocents—Cáin Adomnáin—today

     James W. Houlihan  

 

ARTEFACTS:

       Oak apple in Cork 

     John Stocks Powell

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE: 

       Castle Curious, Shanballymore, Co. Cork

     Damian Murphy

 

KINDRED LINES:

       Records of the courts of petty sessions, c. 1822–1924

     Fiona Fitzsimons 

 

IFI FILM EYE:

       The Callahans and the Murphys rediscovered

     Anna Rose Garvey

 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       Going swimming

     Joanne Rothwell

 

100 YEARS AGO:

       Irish made compulsory in schools

     Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

 

  REVIEWS

 

 

RADIO EAR:

       It Must be Wonderful to be Free

     Eoin Dillon

 

SEEN ON TV:

       Spotlight: The Secret Army

     Brian Hanley

 

WHAT’S ON STAGE:

       The Pull of the Stars

     Sylvie Kleinman

 

MUSEUM EYE: