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.  

MARCH/APRIL 2024

Volume 32  No. 2

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:

            ON THIS DAY

Aodhán Crealey

The life and times of Brendan O’Regan

John Dorney

Daniel O’Connell’s Lost Heart

Brenda Moore-McCann

LETTERS

            Miss Jean Montgomery, Lady Superintendent of the Kitchen

            Colonel Maurice Moore

            Alan Reeve

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

            Donal Fallon

PLATFORM:

            Is there a problem with Irish archives?

Maria Luddy

KINDRED LINES:

            Tracing people on the land in the Tudor and Jacobean plantations

            Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:

Kilkenny Militia band uniform

Eamonn O’Keeffe

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:

            Kildare Street Club, 1–3 Kildare Street, Dublin

            Damian Murphy

IFI FILM EYE:

            Michael Collins’s famous speech and the advent of the Republic of Ireland

            Saskia Vermeulen

LOCAL ARCHIVES:

            Dublin City charters

            Linda Hickey

100 YEARS AGO:

            Joe McGrath and the founding of the National Party

            Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

REVIEWS

SEEN ON TV:

            Face down: the disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer

            Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:

            Book of Kells Experience, Trinity College, Dublin

            Donal Fallon 

Bookworm

            Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Books

            Nolan, Remember ’48 (2 vols): Young Ireland and the rising and Young Irelanders beyond the rising; Morash, Young Ireland: a global afterlife

By Peter Gray

Book Reviews

            Hayes, Ireland’s sea fisheries, 1400–1600: economics, environment and ecology

            By Simon Egan

Gannon, Conflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922

            By Charles Townshend

Barry, Industry and policy in independent Ireland, 1922–1972

            By Colm Keena

            Murphy and Rogers, Sounds Irish, acts global

            By Donal Fallon

FEATURES

1500th ANNIVERSARY:

St Brigit—who was she?

Edel Bhreathnach

FINANCE:

Revd John Reade and Ireland’s first savings banks

Ray O’Connor

POLITICS:

‘Remember your soul and your Liberty’—the 1836 Longford by-election

            Stephen Collins

IRISH ABROAD:

Teresa (Annie) McGrath—forgotten Irish heroine of the battle of Fort Gulistan, India, 1897

Peter W. Halligan

SPORT:

Women and early Irish lawn tennis

John O’Brien

CIVIL WAR:

            ‘Foully butchered in a manner so treacherous’

            Owen O’Shea

SECOND GLANCE:

            ‘Neither King nor Kaiser’—the story of a slogan (and a photograph)

Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

INTERNATIONAL:

            Máirín Mitchell and the Spanish Civil War

            Martin Tyrrell

MILITARY:

            Accidental Nazis? The Irishmen who joined the Waffen-SS

            John Mulqueen

REPUTATIONS:

            Owen Sheehy Skeffington and the birth of liberal Ireland

            Brian Girvin