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MAY/JUNE 2013

In this month's issue:

- Why was Dev reprieved in 1916? - Joe Duffy on the children killed in the Rising
- The Book of Kells reassessed
- The 140-year-old countess of Desmond
- The misspent youth of William Smith O’Brien

- Irish attitudes to slavery during the American Civil War
- The creation of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), 1949–59
- James Hack Tuke and his schemes for assisted emigration from the west of Ireland.

and many more....

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From the Archives

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Most vicious and refractory girls’the reformatories at Ballinasloe and Monaghan

On 2 July 1883, fifteen-year-old Bridget Carroll arrived at the Spark’s Lake reformatory in Monaghan to serve the remainder of a sentence that had been imposed on her four years [...]

The Theatre Royal— a palace of cine-variety

The Theatre Royal’s short 27-year lifespan (it opened in 1935) is testimony to the rapid social change and revolution in entertainment that took place during the last century. The same [...]

Hedge School

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.

Hedge School audios and videos

A collection of audio and video recordings of the 20+ more Hedge Schools we have put on around Ireland, featuring well-known historians in lively debate on popular and relevant topics

Book Reviews

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution

Dublin Fire Brigade and the Irish Revolution Las Fallon (South Dublin Libraries, €7.50) ISBN 9780956580481 Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) has a pivotal if unsung role in the history of [...]

Dublin 1916 and the French connection

‘What was to unfold in Ireland, between 1911 and 1921’, writes W.J. McCormack, ‘was effectively an ideological battle to fill the cheap places, to draw the lower middle class into [...]