In the current issue
History Ireland SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2025
- Irish families in La Rochelle and their plantations in Saint- Domingue, 1715–89
- Nationalism, homophobia and a Victorian Dublin subculture
- Pádraic Ó Conaire’s blue shirt
- Women, football and the war effort in Ireland, 1914–18
- Orange—a vexed issue in Irish vexillology
- Lord Londonderry, Ulster unionism and partition
- The Free State army’s first peacetime artillery practice
By Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh It’s fair to say that a good deal of the fame enjoyed by Pádraic Ó Conaire...
By Robert Delaney September 2025 marks 100 years since the Irish army first fired artillery in the...
By N.C. Fleming The prospect of Irish unification has received greater attention since Brexit. Much...
By Brian Griffin Scholars such as Eileen Reilly, Caitriona Clear, Niamh Gallaher and Fionnuala Walsh...
By Noah Williams On 12 July 1884 ‘he announcement of the verdict was instantly carried outside, and...
By Stan Moore Vexillology, the study of flags, reveals how deeply intertwined Ireland’s flags are...
By Sandrine Tromeur In the late 1630s and early 1640s, a handful of Irish Catholic merchants settled...
By Conor Robison For an O’Neill, Charlemont fort was a symbol of defeat that bore the name of their...
By Patrick McDonagh The National Library of Ireland (NLI) is one of the nation’s leading cultural...
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we explore three films on the IFI Archive Player that celebrate...
By Fiona Fitzsimons In the seventeenth century Ireland, not America, was the land of opportunity...
Regulars
Wednesday 6 August 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, probably the...
Wednesday 6 August 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, probably the...
BY DONAL FALLON CLÓSCAPE The beautiful cló gaelach typeface is slowly but surely disappearing from the streets of the capital. Pre-dating independence and...
By Lar Joye By the 1830s over 30% of those serving in the British Army were Irish Catholics. Most joined for the regular pay and meals, but for most of the nineteenth century they were subject to an...
From The Archives
Michael Collins military dictator
By John M. Regan This article first appeared in: THE SPLIT-Treaty to Civil War 1921–23 published by Wordwell as a supplement to History Ireland in 2021 priced €12. Copies are still available
The Truce and preliminary negotiations between de Valera and Lloyd George
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr As British hopes for a military victory in the War of Independence faded, they began to wonder whether Ireland was worth the price in lives
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