In the current issue
History Ireland JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2026
- The origins of Irish road bowling
- Ireland and the emerging English Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century
- John Philpot Curran’s reinterment in Prospect Cemetery, 1837
- From Cork to Karinhall—a pre-war visit to the fabled Nazi mansion in 1937
- Pamela in exile
- Eugene ‘Hassan Bey’ O’Reilly
- The Welsh language’s debt to early Irish broadcasting
By Andy Bell ‘The first Welsh-language radio broadcast was made from Dublin.’ That surprising and...
By John Mulqueen and Fergus Whelan Too young for involvement in the Saor Éire or Republican Congress...
By Pat Poland By his own admission, Richard ‘Dickie’ Beamish, born in 1909 into the famous Cork...
By Fintan Lane Road bowling—an elemental and deeply rooted sporting tradition in Ireland—has...
By Brett Irwin The His Majesty’s Prison (HMP) archive in the Public Record Office of Northern...
By Gerard Ronan Irish troops have been involved in UN peacekeeping activities in the Middle East...
By Christine Kinealy Many Irish people are aware that in Black ’47, possibly the deadliest year of...
A new acquisition by the National Library of Ireland sheds light on the final months of Lord Edward...
Regulars
In this issue Aodhán Crealey (On This Day, p. 7) reminds us of one of the darkest episodes in the...
In this issue Aodhán Crealey (On This Day, p. 7) reminds us of one of the darkest episodes in the...
BY DONAL FALLON FOCUS THEATRE REMEMBERED In one of his final acts as president, Michael D. Higgins (together with his wife Sabina) unveiled a plaque to honour...
By Stephen McGarry The ‘Wild Geese’ was the name given to the 14,000-strong Irish army that withdrew to France following the Jacobite War in 1691. These Irish regiments formed an Irish brigade that...
By Brian Casey John Philpott Curran, a member of the Church of Ireland, a lawyer, MP, graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and supporter of Catholic rights, was born in Cork in 1750. As a student, he...
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
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