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 2025

Volume 33 No. 4

FEATURES

TIME:

‘Time out of joint’—calendars old and new

Cora Crampton

MILITARY:

Spain, her Irish officers and the ’45

            Stephen Griffin

TRANSLATION:

John Sullivan’s great escape in 1798—survival through translation

John Gleeson

CIVIL WAR:

‘A law unto himself’? Tom Barry’s guerrilla campaign in Tipperary

Anthony Barrett

FASCISM:

The first Blueshirts—the British Fascisti in Ireland 1923–35

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

TOURISM:

            Ireland beautiful—how a 1925 American photobook boosted Irish tourism

            Mark Holan

CENSORSHIP:

            The Callahans and the Murphys and twentieth-century cancel culture

Christopher S. Connelly

SPORT:

Cricket in Fingal

James Bennett

FAMILY HISTORY:

            From Athlone to Amiens—an Irish airman’s death

            Desmond Gibney

REPUTATIONS:

            Robert Dudley Edwards and the Quaker undercurrent to the Irish scientific history revolution

            Neasa MacErlean

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The Wexford Trilogy—the late Billy Colfer remembered

The Book of Leinster goes on display in Trinity’s Long Room following a major conservation project

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Donal Fallon

LETTERS

            Funeral of the Constitution

            Piracy

PLATFORM:

            Much ado about nothing much?

Anthony Coughlan

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            Monaghan Market House, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

            Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:

            Premiums and progress—how the Dublin Society shaped eighteenth-century Ireland

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

Sokol Drill in the Irish Army, 1932–47

Lar Joye

IFI FILM EYE:

            Protest in Ireland on film

            Anna Rose Garvey

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            A contemporary account of the Irish revolution—the diaries of Liam de Róiste TD, 1914–22

            Brian McGee 

100 YEARS AGO:

            The Shannon scheme

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            Patrick: A Slave to Ireland

            Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

            Imaging Conflict: Photographs from Revolutionary Era Ireland 1913–1923, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks

            Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

            Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

            Ó Gráda, The hidden victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars

By Fintan Lane

Book Reviews

            O’Neill, Power and powerlessness in Union Ireland: life in a palliative state

            By Peter Gray

Harris, Precipice

            By Colum Kenny

Dillon, The sorrow and the loss: the tragic shadow cast by the Troubles on the lives of women

            By Margaret Ward

            Kenny, Under the rainbow: inside John Bruton’s coalition government

            By Barry Walsh