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‘Scotsmen, stand by Ireland’: John Maclean and the Irish Revolution

‘Scotsmen, stand by Ireland’: John Maclean and the Irish Revolution



Gavin Foster assesses the significance of a Scottish revolutionary through the prism of his relationship with Ireland.
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Having the right kit: galloglass fighting in Ireland
Having the right kit: galloglass fighting in Ireland

Using carved images from West Highland sculpture and neglected descriptive accounts of their appearance, David H. Caldwell outlines and assesses the effectiveness of the equipment used by West Highland warriors from whom the galloglass were drawn, familiar figures on the battlefields of Ireland from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century.

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Von Ranke in Dublin
Von Ranke in Dublin

Although married to an Irishwoman, the famous German historian Leopold von Ranke only visited the place of her birth once, in 1865. Andreas Boldt outlines what he made of the place and how he got on.

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The Catholic Church’s Irishmen in Rome: the correspondence of Paul Cullen and Tobias Kirby
The Catholic Church’s Irishmen in Rome: the correspondence of Paul Cullen and Tobias Kirby

Vera Orschel reports on a project currently under way in the Irish College in Rome to digitise the papers of two long-serving and influential nineteenth-century Irish clerics who were both rectors of the college.

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Stalin’s victory? The Soviet Union and World War II
Stalin’s victory? The Soviet Union and World War II

Was one of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictators also its greatest warlord? In the light of new evidence from Soviet archives Geoffrey Roberts assesses the fluctuating military reputation of Joseph Stalin.

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