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.  

March/April  2025.

COMING SOON. 

Volume 33  No. 2

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The Art of Friendship: Evie Hone & Mainie Jellett

Joseph McBrinn

Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Donal Fallon

LETTERS

            British capture of Mauritius

            Catholic Emancipation—a full picture

            Ireland the republic/Ireland the island

            Historical presentism

            Stephen the Stuffer

PLATFORM:

            Past, present and future

Brett Bowden

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            The ‘Jealous Wall’, Belvedere, Co. Westmeath

            Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:

            Herald’s visitations in Ireland

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

When do we use replicas?

Lar Joye

IFI FILM EYE:

            A look at the Irish Independence Film Collection

            Anna Rose Garvey

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Kells Urban District Council Free Milk Scheme

            Patricia Fallon

100 YEARS AGO:

            The Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) merges with An Garda Síochána

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars

            Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

            Drawing Support: Murals, Memory and Identity, Ulster Museum, Belfast

            Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

            Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

            O’Keeffe, Crowley, O’Drisceoil, Borgonovo and Murphy (eds), Atlas of the Irish Civil War: new perspectives

By Charles Lysaght

Book Reviews

            Howlin (ed.), A century of courts: the Courts of Justice Act 1924

            By James K. Meighan

Anderson, Disputing disaster: a sextet on the Great War

            By Eoin Dillon

Casey, Hotel Lux: an intimate history of communism’s forgotten radicals

            By Brian Trench

            Ferriter, The revelation of Ireland 1995–2020

            By Brian Girvin

FEATURES

PHILANTHROPY:

Methodist responses to the Great Hunger

Danny Ó Seachnasaigh

RELIGION:

St Vincent’s Church and the Vincentians in Cork

            Antóin O’Callaghan

INTERNATIONAL:

‘My enemy’s enemy …’—the 1861 Trent Affair in The Nation

Charles Tyner

IRISH ABROAD:

On arrive!—the Irish in the Franco-Prussian War

Isadore Ryan

REPUTATIONS:

            ‘I did the work I was fit for’—Seán O’Faolain’s pension application

            John Grant

CARTOGRAPHY:

Lilian Lancaster’s folkloric portraits of the Irishman and St Patrick

Kieran Rankin

TRANSPORT:

            The general and his drivers—Eoin O’Duffy’s chauffeurs

Jack Traynor

NEUTRALITY:

            Éamon de Valera, the Irish diaspora and wartime hate mail

            Tim Ellis-Dale

MILITARY:

            The Labour government, the Army and the crisis of the British state over Northern Ireland, 1972–6

            Paul Dixon