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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Remembering "the Captain"
Michael Smith rescues another Irish polar explorer from obscurity—Francis Crozier, second-in-command on Franklin’s doomed expedition.
George Nicholson examines two notices found in an envelope mailed from Toronto to Wardsville, a small town in south-west Ontario, in February 1889 for the light they shed on the Home Rule movement in North America.
Seventy years after the publication of The Irish Republic, Nadia Clare Smith reassesses its author.
The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade Nini Rodgers outlines Irish involvement in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade and its impact on the Irish economy.
The Irish and the Atlantic slave trade
Cian McMahon outlines the career of R. R. Madden, who believed that the enslavement of Africans in the sugar colonies and the subjugation of Catholics in Ireland were interlocking parts of a wider problem of oppression.
James Quinn outlines the American career of Ireland’s most famous (or infamous) advocate of slavery and how this squared with his support for Irish freedom.
Daniel Leach takes issue with some of the conclusions of Ireland’s Nazis, the two-part documentary broadcast on RTÉ 1 in January 2007 and reviewed in the March/April issue of History Ireland.
In the light of the recent formation of an executive in Northern Ireland, Gordon Gillespie looks at the demise of an earlier experiment in power-sharing.
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