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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: ‘the two histories’

‘Why is this so important now—why is it such a live and vitriolic debate?’ So asked historian Anne Dolan at a recent TCD seminar on the late Peter Hart’s interpretation of the Kilmichael ambush. Dr Dolan deserves an answer, argues John M. Regan.
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Hidden in plain sight: the nobility of Tudor Ireland
Hidden in plain sight: the nobility of Tudor Ireland Gerald Power ponders on why the nobility of Tudor Ireland, unlike their counterparts in England, have been neglected by historians . . . and why he thinks that is about to change. Read More >>

Cromwellian courts martial records
Cromwellian courts martial records The recent discovery in Marsh’s Library of the records of Cromwellian courts martial held in Dublin between February 1652 and April 1653 has generated considerable excitement among historians, writes Jason McElligott. Read More >>

History repeating: Georgian Ireland’s property bubble
History repeating: Georgian Ireland’s property bubble While Ireland’s current economic woes may appear unprecedented, this is not the country’s first post-property-bubble crisis. Lamentably, as Séamus Nevin explains, the story of Ireland’s eighteenth-century property bubble bears an eerie resemblance to that of today. Read More >>

Irish Home Rule: stepping-stone to imperial federation?
Irish Home Rule: stepping-stone to imperial federation? Why did Cecil Rhodes donate £10,000 to Charles Stewart Parnell in 1888? Was it, in fact, a bribe? Elaine Byrne investigates. Read More >>

Feakle’s Biddy Early: a victim of ‘moral panic’?
Feakle’s Biddy Early: a victim of ‘moral panic’? John Rainsford re-examines the life of traditional healer Biddy Early and wonders whether she was the victim of a moral panic, someone who was seen as a threat to societal values and interests. Read More >>

‘Make way for the Molly Maguires!’ The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1902–14
‘Make way for the Molly Maguires!’ The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1902–14 Fergal McCluskey traces the evolution of the Ancient Order of Hibernians from a marginal, plebeian political network in south-west Ulster to the major force within the Irish Parliamentary Party. Read More >>

Casement’s Irish Brigade uniform
Casement’s Irish Brigade uniform Lar Joye relates how Imperial Germany never quite saw England’s difficulty as its opportunity. Read More >>

Tit-for-tat: the War of Independence in the northern counties

Tit-for-tat: the War of Independence in the northern counties

For the people of Ulster the events taking place in the rest of Ireland during 1918–19 seemed remote. As IRA attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary gathered pace, however, the ripples of the violence spread northwards and by 1920 the war was on the doorstep of the nationalist and unionist populations in Ulster. Pearse Lawlor outlines some of its more unsavoury incidents.

‘The South is in the mood for violence’: Bloody Sunday, 1972
‘The South is in the mood for violence’: Bloody Sunday, 1972 Brian Hanley looks at the popular reaction in the Republic to the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. For three days strikes, demonstrations and riots rocked the state. The burning of the British embassy was only one of many expressions of the anger that engulfed the South. Read More >>

Cork City Library
Cork City Library Liam Ronayne describes a notable twentieth-century building on Cork’s Grand Parade. Read More >>

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