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 May/June 2023

FEATURES

SAINTS:

St Sunniva—Ireland’s medieval martyr-queen

Meredith Cutrer 

Economy:

Castilian–Irish trade in the later Middle Ages

Gonzalo Franco-Ordovás

LITERATURE:

‘Hugon come erindwards’—James Joyce’s Huguenots

Martin Green

REVISION:

The 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami and the impact on the coast of Cork

Michael Gibbons

ETHNICITY:

Gypsies in Ireland—a Hiberno-Romany community

David Joyce

REPUTATIONS:

Laurence Ginnell (1852–1923), one of the truly global figures of the Irish revolution

Paul Hughes

BEYOND 2022:

‘Born from fire’—the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland at 100

Tim Murtagh and Stephen Scarth

MEMOIR:

‘Somewhere entirely different’—Inisheer in the 1960s

Dennis Kennedy

Regulars

From the Editor

History in the News:

Sources for Irish women’s history

Maria Luddy

Remembering Godfrey Quigley

Ivor Casey

On this day

Aodhán Crealey

Bite-sized History

Donal Fallon 

Letters

Lest we forget

Niall Meehan’s review of Rotten Prod

The Keatings and other Deise republicans

RIC, RCMP and TPS

Brian Nelson

O’Connell School alumni and the revolutionary decade

Disappointed 

Platform:

A library by any other name? Clare Marie Moriarty  

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

Erasmus Smith House, Ennis, Co. Clare 

Damian Murphy 

ARTEFACTS:

Jack Comer’s Tintown autograph book

Úna Kavanagh

KINDRED LINES:

‘Home Children’—an Irish perspective, 1860s to 1922

Fiona Fitzsimons 

Local Archives:

The Farrell estate maps 

Patricia Fallon

100 YEARS AGO:

Frank Aiken gives the order to dump arms

Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

  Reviews

SEEN ON TV:

Lady Gregory: Ireland’s first social influencer

Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

‘The Holy Hour: a requiem for Brendan Behan’, Museum of Literature Ireland

Donal Fallon 

What’s ON STAGE:

The RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival, 1953–2023

Fiona Brennan 

Bookworm

Joe Culley

The Big Book

Gaynor, Commanders of the British forces in Ireland 1796–1922

By Daniel Ayiotis

Book Reviews

Boran, Nelson and Lawlor (eds), Botany and gardens in early modern Ireland

By Mary Davies

Fallon, Three castles burning: a history of Dublin in twelve streets

By Evan Comerford

Curran, Soccer and society: a history of association football in Ireland’s capital

By Brian Trench

Kenny, The way we were: Catholic Ireland since 1922

By Sarah-Anne Buckley