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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Career wives or wicked stepmothers?
Why did the gruesome practice of the taking of heads as trophies escalate in Tudor Ireland? David Edwards investigates.
Recent high-profile cases of rogue solicitors taking out multiple mortgages on properties have focused attention on the Registry of Deeds and its perceived inefficiency and archaism. Yet, argues Seán J. Murphy, the Registry’s great age and its remarkable archives render the repository of particular value to historians and genealogists.
Seán Bagnall looks at the dispensary service in Tallaght in the 1830s and finds that there is nothing new in controversies about access and funding of public health services.
Patrick Geoghegan reflects on the misspent youth of Daniel O’Connell.
Philip Orr averts his gaze from the trauma of the battlefields and focuses instead on the Irish domestic experience of the First World War in this case-study of Carrickfergus during the Great War.
Siobháin Pierce tells the story of Florence Lea’s ‘On War Service’ badge
The current owner of the painting, Risteárd Mulcahy, tells the convoluted story of a document of rare historic value.
John Reynolds investigates claims of bleeding statues and miraculous cures in North Tipperary at the height of the War of Independence.
Mary Davies describes a notable nineteenth-century public building, gifted to Bray, Co. Wicklow, by its future lord of the manor.
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