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.  

History Ireland.

March/April 2026.

Volume 34 Number 2.

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Clarke gravestone unveiled in Glasnevin

       Helen Litton

       The Prisoners’ Lens: secret photography in Kilmainham Gaol, 1921

       Brian Crowley 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

LETTERS

       Pamela Fitzgerald

       Small Things Like These

       William Dargan’s origins

       The far-right phenomenon

       The Danford affair, Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1872

PLATFORM:

       The ‘Bubberification’ of history—when entertainment replaces understanding

       Janus T. Saito-Madsen  

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Deenagh Lodge, Killarney, Co. Kerry

       Damian Murphy

TALES FROM THE GRAVE:

       Two riots at Prospect Cemetery, 1835 and 1836

       Brian Casey

KINDRED LINES: 

       The 1926 census—a century sealed, a nation revealed

       Zoë Reid

IFI FILM EYE:

       Amharc Éireann—a view of Ireland

       Anna Rose Garvey

ARTEFACTS:

       Panhard M3 armoured personnel carrier (APC)

       Lar Joye 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       The workhouse schoolmistress

       Joanne Rothwell

100 YEARS AGO:

       Violet Gibson shoots Benito Mussolini

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

       The Emancipator

       Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

       The Falls: Where the Troubles Began

       Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

       Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

       Cunningham, Hanley, Muldowney and Tiernan (eds), Saothar 50

       By Conor McCabe

Book Reviews

       Quinn, Bloody summer: a new history of the 1798 rebellion

       By Timothy Murtagh

       Beckton, The unbroken covenant

       By Ivan Gibbons

       McCullagh, From crown to harp: how the Anglo-Irish Treaty was undone, 1922–1949

       By John Gibney

       O’Malley, Charlie vs Garret: the rivalry that shaped modern Ireland

       By Brian Girvin

FEATURES

FOLKLORE:

       The Book of Invasions and the Spanish Gaels

       Sergio Fernández Redondo

TRAVEL:

       The voyage of St Columbanus—redrawing the map