• History Ireland January/February 2022

The January/February 2022  issue of History Ireland  is available to order now. The contents of this month’s issue are as follows:

 

January/February 2022

VOLUME 30 NO. 1


FEATURES

 

SOURCES:

Two sieges and a murder: the 1641 rebellion in Ardmore

Richard Harrington

 

CELEBRITY:

            ‘Beauty is pain … but also power’—the influence of celebrated belles

Laura Fitzachary

 

SCIENCE:

            Nicholas Callan—a scrupulous life of faith and science

            Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock

 

EMIGRATION:

            ‘Rags and boughs’—daughters of the Irish Great Hunger in Australia

            Anne Casey

 

HEALTH:

Dublin Hospital Sunday Fund—voluntary hospitals and healthcare c. 1870

Joe Curran

 

WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:

            The Royal Air Force in west Mayo 1918–21

            Myles Mac Evilly

 

ART:

            Paint and politics—an ‘unhealthy intersection’

            Billy Shortall

 

SCHOOLS’ ESSAY COMPETITION:

            ‘A determined man’—my great-grandfather, Fionán Lynch

            Lasara Lynch

 

POLITICS:

            The curious case of Revd James Godfrey MacManaway MBEclergyman, soldier and politician

            Aaron Callan



REGULARS

 

From the Editor

 

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

‘Dublin Castle has fallen!’—commemorating the ‘handover’

John Gibney

The Queen of Sheba at the National Gallery of Ireland

Marie Bourke

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Tony Canavan

 

 

Letters

            1595 Rausakeera inauguration a one-off?

            Fitzalan ‘the leading Catholic aristocrat in England’?

            Seán Ó Siocháin

            Corrections

 

PLATFORM:

            Dublin’s first futurists

Frank McDonald

 

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Monalty House, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan

Alan Hughes

 

ARTEFACTS:

            The Aghabullogue hurl (1890)

            Siobhán Doyle

 

 

KINDRED LINES:

            The return of the native

            Fiona Fitzsimons

 

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Clonmel Corporation minute book, 1687–1711

            Rachel Granville

 

100 YEARS AGO:

            Treaty debates in the Dáil

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr



REVIEWS

 

SEEN ON TV:

            An tSlí

            Donal Fallon

 

MUSEUM EYE:

            Charles Fort, Kinsale, Co. Cork

            Tony Canavan

 

Bookworm

            Joe Culley

 

The Big Book

            Canny, Imagining Ireland’s pasts: early modern Ireland through the centuries

By John Gibney

 

Book Reviews

            Duffy, Aristocratic women in Ireland 1450–1660: the Ormond family, power and politics

            By Gillian Kenny

Campbell (ed.), Vicereines of Ireland: portraits of forgotten women

            By Sylvie Kleinman

Kirkland, Irish London: a cultural history 1850–1916

            By Angus Mitchell

Barry, Fake news and the Irish War of Independence

            By Maurice Walsh

Burke, Kitson’s Irish war: mastermind of the dirty war in Ireland

            By Ian Wood

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