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 2023 Back Issue

VOLUME 31 NO. 6

Regulars

From the Editor

History in the News:

Celebrating 30 years of History Ireland

Felix M. Larkin

St Catherine’s Church, Thomas Street

Michael Brabazon

On this day

Aodhán Crealey

Bite-sized History

Donal Fallon

Letters

Dirty war and its practitioners

Indulgences

Ireland at the League of Nations, 1923–46

Provenance of two quotations?

Platform:

Without better ways of recalling a contested past, how can communities be reconciled?

Padraig Yeates

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Waterford Savings Bank, O’Connell Street, Waterford

Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:

Valuation Office Archives 1830–65

Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

QF 12-pounder coastal defence guns

Lar Joye

IFI FILM EYE:

‘Moonmen’ and Santa brave the winter waters of Dublin Bay

Penny McGovern

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

Cinematographic licences

Lorraine McCann

100 YEARS AGO:

Emergency Powers Act at end of Civil War

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

SEEN ON TV:

The seven ages of Noël Browne

Brian Trench

RADIO EAR:

Dead White Men

Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

GAA: People, Objects and Stories, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks

Donal Fallon

Bookworm

Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book

Stafford, The case of Ireland: commerce, empire and the European order, 1750–1848

By Timothy Murtagh

Book Reviews

Augusteijn, Mayo: the Irish revolution, 1912–23

By Liam Alex Heffron

O’Brien, Seán O’Casey: political activist and writer

By Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel

Daly, The battle to control female fertility in modern Ireland; Kelly, Contraception and modern Ireland: a social history, c. 1922–92

By Mary Kenny

McCabe, Why Sinéad O’Connor matters

By Éamon Ó Caoineachan

Features

MILITARY:

Hugh Dubh O’Neill—Cromwell’s stoutest enemy

Conor Robison

RELIGION:

‘God’s Acre’—Gracehill, Co. Antrim

Rob Christie

TRANSPORT:

Hurtling towards the past—tourism, history and the railway in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland

Clare O’Halloran

GENDER:

Captain Boycott vs the women of Mayo

Elizabeth Malcolm

INTERNATIONAL:

‘The Irishmen of Russia’—Ukrainian anti-imperial struggles and engagement with Ireland

Donnacha Ó Beacháin

OCCUPATION:

The IRA in ‘the sacred ark of the covenant of Toryism’, May 1922

Charles Lysaght

LITERATURE:

‘Europe’s welcome to the Free State’—W.B. Yeats’s Nobel Prize, December 1923

Daniel Mulhall

DIPLOMACY:

Edward Phelan’s role in the Irish Free State’s membership of the League of Nations and the ILO

Gerry Finnegan

ART:

‘Propaganda of Polishness by art’—cultural diplomacy in Ireland in 1937

Gabriela Lojewska and Philip McEvansoneya