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.  

MAY/JUNE 2026

VOLUME 34 NO. 3

   FEATURES

CELTICISM:

       The first Irish Celt—Tadhg Ó Neachtain (d. c. 1752)

     Patrick Wadden

LEGACIES OF EMPIRE:

       The Royal Dublin Society and the Legacies of Empire Project, 1731–1877

     Rachael Scally

MEMORY:

       ‘Remember Mullaghmast’—grievance history and the south Kildare monster meeting

     Cora Crampton

IRISH ABROAD:

       Fool of fortune—Stanislaus Joyce’s wartime travails      Isadore Ryan

SCHOLARSHIP:

       The School of Irish Learning (1903–26)

     Angus Mitchell

SECOND GLANCE:

       The Cairo Gang—ending the confusion

     Joseph McKenna

RELIGION:

       Corpus Christi in Cork

     Antóin O’Callaghan

FIANNA FÁIL 100:

       Fianna Fáil and the local press in Kerry, 1926–33

     Owen O’Shea

COMMEMORATION:

       Conor Cruise O’Brien and the National Day of Commemoration and Reconciliation, 1974

     Maurice Hartigan

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Rembrandt to Matisse—A Celebration of European Works on Paper

     Marie Bourke

       Frongoch revisited

     Damien McLellan 

       ON THIS DAY

     Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

     Donal Fallon

LETTERS

       Cholera in Limerick Asylum, 1832

       James Connolly in India?

       James Connolly’s parents’ grave still unmarked

       The unity of Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Freethinker, Buddhist and Muslim?

       Gertie Shields and drink driving

       Drummond painting on the move

       House of Guinness

       Souvenir china of Kildare Cathedral

       Partition—for the price of a loaf of bread?

PLATFORM:

       Ireland and empire

     Eoin Dillon 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       The Tower of Lloyd, Kells, Co. Meath 

     Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES: 

       Surveillance in 1860s Ireland—case abstracts and Fenian photos

     Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

       London Irish Rifles uniform

     Lar Joye 

TALES FROM THE GRAVE:

       Glasnevin Cemetery and the ‘Anti-Early Burials Committee’, 1852

     Brian Casey

IFI FILM EYE:

       Terence McDonald Collection

     Neil Moxham

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       Clayton Woollen Mill, Navan, Co. Meath

     Clare Ryan

YEARS AGO:

       Fianna Fáil founded

     Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

FILM WATCH:

       Spilt Milk

     Seán Patrick Donlan