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Gráinne Mhaol, pirate queen of Connacht: behind the legend

Gráinne Mhaol, pirate queen of Connacht: behind the legend



Theresa Denise Murray examines the career of Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Máille or Gráinne Mhaol), legendary pirate queen of Connacht and one of the most enigmatic figures in Irish history
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Charlemont on the Grand Tour
Charlemont on the Grand Tour

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Frederick Vodrey’s ceramic designs for the 1880s Dublin exhibitions
Frederick Vodrey’s ceramic designs for the 1880s Dublin exhibitions

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‘On the inside sitting alone’: pioneer Irish women doctors
‘On the inside sitting alone’: pioneer Irish women doctors

Beulah Bewley outlines the careers of five early female practitioners of medicine

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The collapse of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Soviet Union

A decade and a half ago, the world was convulsed by events that no one had seriously predicted yet that resulted in a complete restructuring of the geopolitics of the globe. Ron Hill outlines the events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union

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Repelling the Repealer: William McComb’s caricatures of Daniel O’Connell
Repelling the Repealer: William McComb’s caricatures of Daniel O’Connell

Patrick Maume takes a look at a relatively rare example of Ulster unionist visual propaganda from the O’Connell period—the line drawings that accompanied William McComb’s The Repealer Repulsed.

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Hart to Heart
Hart to Heart

Rarely has a publication debut provoked such a strong reaction as Peter Hart’s The IRA and its enemies (1998), a micro-study of the IRA in County Cork, 1919–23. His claim that there was no ‘false surrender’ of RIC Auxiliaries at the Kilmichael ambush, as claimed by IRA commander Tom Barry, and the predictable furore that has resulted have tended to obscure the wider significance of his work. In a recent conversation Brian Hanley quizzed him on the bigger picture

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