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.  

November/December 2025

 Volume 33 No. 6

FEATURES

CHIEFS’ PRIZE:

       Will the real Síl Muiredaig please stand up?

       David C. Mac Donagh

CARTOGRAPHY:

       ‘A heap of rude materials’—William Molyneux and the birth of local Irish history in the age of empires

       Eamon Darcy

IRISH ABROAD:

       Edwin L. Godkin—an Irish Mugwump in Gilded Age America

       Daniel Mulhall

PRESS:

       The Wild Goose, the Catalpa and The Pilot

       Angeline O’Neill

MILITARY/MEDICAL:

       From Killaloe to Khartoum with an Irish surgeon-general

       T.K. Moloney

CENTENARY I:

       The Boundary Commission—gathering the evidence

       Ivan Gibbons

CENTENARY II:

       The Boundary Commission—the fallout

       Cormac Moore

SPORT:

       The GAA at home and away—Gaelic games and Irish emigration in the 1950s

       Jack Hepworth

FILM:

       Quiet people? Ireland’s early eighties on screen

       Seán Patrick Donlan

REGULARS

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Ardnacrusha tour opens a floodgate of fond memories

       Claire Graham

       New world record attempt at 2026 O’Sullivan/Sullivan clan gathering

       Marc O’Sullivan Vallig 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

LETTERS

       Robert Dudley Edwards and David Quinn

       Ulster’s last defiant bastion?

       The Lyng brothers

       Limerick’s ‘Big Gun’

       Martin Mansergh—an appreciation

PLATFORM:

       Should Ireland commemorate ‘The Year of the Normans’ in 2027?

       Conor Kostick

ARTEFACTS:

       Irish soldiers in the Peninsular War, 1808–14

       Lar Joye  

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Dromore Castle (1867–70), Co. Limerick 

       Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES: 

       Grand Jury Presentments and Query Books

       Fiona Fitzsimons

IFI FILM EYE: 

       Ballymun Community Films

       Anna Rose Garvey 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       Dundalk Joint Burial Board

       Lorraine McCann

100 YEARS AGO:

       Ireland’s ‘forgotten famine’

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

       Dev: Rise and Rule

       Brian Hanley

MUSEUM EYE: