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 November/December 2026

VOLUME 34 NO. 6

   REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

       Spiorad Ban Chíarraí unveiled in Tralee

       Recording the Past—the Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History

       ON THIS DAY

     Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

     Donal Fallon

LETTERS

       John Regan replies

       Peter Finnerty corrections

       Margaret Buckley, first woman to lead an Irish political party?

       The ‘parliamentary route’

       Chauvinism and The Nation

       Queen Victoria at UCC

PLATFORM:

       The North’s loyalism problem

     Fearghal Mac Bhloscaith  

ARTEFACTS:

       Uniform of Henry Joy McCracken

     Lar Joye

KINDRED LINES: 

       County Committees of Agriculture records, 1900 to 1980s

     Fiona Fitzsimons

IFI FILM EYE:

       Lost and found—Kalem’s The Shaughraun

     Tony Tracy

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

       Goulding summer house (1972–3), Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow 

     Damian Murphy 

TALES FROM THE GRAVE:

       The bombing of Glasnevin’s O’Connell tower, January 1971

     Brian Casey

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

       Labourers’ cottages in County Dublin

     Karen de Lacey

100 YEARS AGO:

       George Bernard Shaw receives the Nobel Prize for Literature

     Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

       In the Opinion of the Censor and Testimony

     Sylvie Kleinman

FILM WATCH:

       De Gaulle Part 1—Résistance

     David Murphy

MUSEUM EYE:

       The Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park

     Donal Fallon

5Bookworm

       Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

       Milotte, Communist politics in Ireland 1916–1945, Vol. 1: Pursuit of the workers’ republic in the post-Connolly and Larkin era, 1916–1928

       By Gerry Watts

Book Reviews

       Calvert, Pious and promiscuous: life, love and family in Presbyterian Ulster

       By Dianne McPhelim

       Wendling, Converting Ireland: religious education, language and colonialism

       By Proinsias Ó Drisceoil

       Sweeney, A gunman and a fool 

       By Fergus Whelan

       Loughman, James Ryan and the development of independent Ireland, 1892–1970

       By Brian Girvin

  FEATURES

CHIEFS’ PRIZE:

       Gaelic Ireland and the Black Death

     Tadg Farrell

BICENTENARY:

       The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1826)—breaking the silence

     C.J. Woods