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 July/August 2026

VOLUME 34 NO. 4

   REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Printed in Defiance: Making the 1916 Proclamation

       100 years of continuous GAA match-day programmes

       John Kelly 

       ON THIS DAY

       Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

       Donal Fallon 

LETTERS

       Cairo Gang

       Captain William Lorraine, commander    of F Company, ADRIC

       Tipperary Town Civic Guards

       The ‘real’ Síl Muiredaig?

       Fenians in House of Guinness

       David McCullagh on Arthur Griffith’s      ‘damnable lie’

       John Connolly’s British Army service

       The nationalism of The Nation

       Frongoch hut

       White Horse Bridge   

PLATFORM:

       Know-Nothingism in America, then and now

       James Chandler  

KINDRED LINES: 

       Tracing the Irish in the Continental Army, 1775–83

       Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

       Captured Saratoga musket

       Hugh Stephenson

TALES FROM THE GRAVE:

       Goldenbridge Cemetery—in the heart of Inchicore

       Brian Casey

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Olympia Theatre, Dame Street, Dublin 

       Damian Murphy 

IFI FILM EYE:

       The Fleadh Ceoil

       Anna Rose Garvey 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       ‘Drunkenness, disorder and debauchery’: Clonmel Town Commissioners’ Court—Warrant Book

       Claire Hyland

100 YEARS AGO:

       Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier’s Song) officially recognised

       Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

       Come to your Census

       Sylvie Kleinman

FILM WATCH:

       Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars

       Seán Patrick Donlan

MUSEUM EYE:

       William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy

       Luke Gibbons 

Bookworm

       Daragh Fitzgerald

60   The Big Book

       Ó Crualaoich and Whelan, Gaelic Wexford 1400–1600: culture, landscape, settlement

       By Michael Potterton

Book Reviews

       Harney, Moneta: ancient Rome in twelve coins

       By Murray Smith

       Waddell, The Celtic world: a history

       By Ian Stewart

       Prendergast, Clear, hold, build: how the Free State won the Irish Civil War

       By John M. Regan

       Crotty, The Irish tricolour: the truth behind the symbols and struggles that defined a nation