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.  

REGULARS

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

Long live life! Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin

Emily Mark-FitzGerald and Kathryn Milligan

‘Dublin can be heaven’—remembering Noel Purcell

Ivor Casey

ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

Donal Fallon

LETTERS

Renaming the library formerly known as the Berkeley

The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914–1924

Marian Tobin and the War of Independence in Tipperary

O’Duffy’s drivers

The Irish in the Franco-Prussian War

Anti-Semitism in Ireland

PLATFORM:

Where, oh, where is the evidence? Greaves, Connolly and the British Army

Conor McCabe

KINDRED LINES:

Finding foster-children, 1862–1924

Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Mount Congreve House, County Waterford

Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:

How Joyce’s Tower looked as Ulysses appeared

Colum Kenny

IFI FILM EYE:

The Louis Marcus Collection/Bailiúchán Louis Marcus

Sunniva O’Flynn

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

The 1880 inventory of a ‘big house’—the Hunt de Vere Collection of Curragh Chase

Sarah Hayes-Hickey

100 YEARS AGO:

Oonah Keogh—stock exchange first

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

De Valera San Fhasách

Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

Poster Boys, National Print Museum

Donal Fallon

Bookworm

Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

Mac Con Iomaire and Cashman (eds), Irish food history: a companion

By Claire Connolly

Book Reviews

Ó Hoireabhárd, The medieval Irish kings and the English invasion

By Simon Egan

Gentles, Oliver Cromwell: God’s warrior and the English revolution, 2nd edition

By John Morrill

Bartlett, History in flames: the destruction and survival of medieval manuscripts

By Murray Smith

McCabe (ed.), The lost and early writings of James Connolly, 1889–1898

By Emmet O’Connor

FEATURES

800th ANNIVERSARY:

Laurence O’Toole—Normandy’s Irish saint

Jesse Harrington

PENOLOGY:

Kilmainham Gaol as a panopticon

Sophie McGurk

DEMOGRAPHY:

Infant baptism and infant death

Liam Kennedy

PARTITION:

Nano Aiken, internment and the end of the Irish revolution in the North, 1923–4

Eoin Magennis and Lesa Ní Mhunghaile

PROPHECY:

St Malachy—prophet of Irish independence?

Robin Fuller

PROPAGANDA:

Irish participation in the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and 1925

Billy Shortall

CURRENCY:

Churchill, Blythe and the crisis of British silver coin in Ireland, 1926–9

Mark Stocker

SCIENCE:

Phyllis Ryan, first among women

Brian Trench

BIOGRAPHY:

Aodh de Blácam (1891–1951)

Tarlach de Blácam

MILITARY:

Private John Keane’s Emergency

Pat Dargan