In the current issue
History Ireland NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2025
- The Boundary Commission— the fallout
- Dev: Rise and Rule
- Will the real Síl Muiredaig please stand up?
- The Celts: a modern history
- Should Ireland commemorate ‘The Year of the Normans’ in 2027?
- The Wild Goose, the Catalpa and The Pilot
- Quiet people? Ireland’s early eighties on screen
By Angeline O’Neill The story of The Wild Goose, the Catalpa and The Pilot is the story of Irishman...
An Cailín Ciuín (2022), That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023) and Small Things Like These (2024)...
By Jack Hepworth To many outside observers, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) might have...
By Cormac Moore The Irish Boundary Commission, which was provided for under the 1921 Anglo-Irish...
By Ivan Gibbons On 18 December 1924 the Fermanagh Impartial Reporter and Farmers’ Journal reported...
By T.K. Moloney In September 1919 a body lay in state in a coffin in a private house on the sloping...
By Daniel Mulhall I have often wondered where Arthur Griffith got the idea for his influential...
By Eamon Darcy In the 1660s, as the English empire expanded into the Atlantic world, interest in the...
By David C. Mac Donagh DNA is being used for genealogy in various ways, but especially by taking...
Regulars
The recent presidential election (not yet decided at the time of writing) put me in mind of the...
The recent presidential election (not yet decided at the time of writing) put me in mind of the...
BY DONAL FALLON A LITERARY FEUD RECALLED The recent auction of the library of the late Tommy Smith (publican and republican) from Purcell Auctioneers produced...
By Lar Joye After reforms in 1793, Roman Catholics were allowed to join the British Army as soldiers but not as officers, although there were exceptions. From 1800 to 1815, 90,000 Irishmen served in...
From The Archives
Michael Collins military dictator
By John M. Regan This article first appeared in: THE SPLIT-Treaty to Civil War 1921–23 published by Wordwell as a supplement to History Ireland in 2021 priced €12. Copies are still available
The Truce and preliminary negotiations between de Valera and Lloyd George
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr As British hopes for a military victory in the War of Independence faded, they began to wonder whether Ireland was worth the price in lives
Lively round-table discussions
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Forthcoming Hedge Schools
Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities.
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