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 2025

 Volume 33 No. 5

FEATURES

 ARS

3       From the Editor

6       HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

          Moore Street—the long war

       Mícheál Mac Donncha

          T.C. Connolly’s Bundoran and its neighbourhood (1895)

       Éamon Ó Caoineachán

          ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

10     BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

11     LETTERS

       James Connolly and the ISRP

          ‘Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye’

          Rex Ingram’s father’s loss

          Brian Hanley and anti-Semitism

          Francis Joseph Bigger and piping club banners

14     PLATFORM:

          A right of way

       Jonathan Stearn

19     ARTEFACTS:

          Discipline and punishment in the British military

       Lar Joye

23     KINDRED LINES: 

          Lists of passengers leaving the UK, 1890–1960

       Fiona Fitzsimons

31     GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

          St Aengus’s Catholic Church (1964–7), Burt, Co. Donegal

       Damian Murphy 

39     IFI FILM EYE:

          Exploring Irish artists

       Anna Rose Garvey

52     LOCAL ARCHIVES:

          John Tate’s Charity, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

       Catherine Wright

70     100 YEARS AGO:

          The disputed All-Ireland finals of 1925

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

54     SEEN ON TV:

          Housewife of the Year and Recalling the Layers [radio]

       Sylvie Kleinman

56     MUSEUM EYE:

          Patrick Earley Collection—eighteenth- and nineteenth-century views of Dublin and Wicklow, Irish Georgian Society 

       Donal Fallon 

58     Bookworm

          Daragh Fitzgerald

60     The Big Books

          Nolan and O’Conor (eds), Sligo: history and society; Murphy and Donnelly (eds), Antrim: history and society

          By Arnold Horner

63     Book Reviews

          Clark, Revolutionary spring: Europe aflame and the fight for a new world 1848–1849

          By Eoin Dillon

          Shiels, Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union military, 1861–1865 

          By Dan Mulhall

          Clark, Swift blaze of fire. The life of Robert Hilliard: Olympian, cleric, brigadista

          By Brian Hanley

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