In the current issue
History Ireland MARCH / APRIL 2026
- The Book of Invasions and the Spanish Gaels
- he Banshee’s Kiss—the All- for-Ireland League, 1909–18
- Drunk at the wheel—the regu- lation of drink driving offences in Ireland, 1950–68
- Saothar 50
- The fate and fortunes of Conn O’Neill (c. 1601–c. 1622)
- The voyage of St Columbanus—redrawing the map
- Daniel O’Connell and the German Catholic Church
By Robert Grendon On an autumn evening in the early 1950s, the renowned Irish novelist and...
By Patrick R. Redmond Undoubtedly, the highest visibility of people of colour in Ireland has...
By Patrick Murphy Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Cork had a reputation for political...
While Daniel O’Connell’s influence on Belgium, France and Italy is relatively well known, little has...
By Nigel Johnston Of the significant punctuation points in pre-Famine history the cholera epidemic...
By Brian Smyth A bequest by Francis Andrews, the provost of Trinity College, Dublin, enabled the...
By Clodagh Tait When the earls of Tyrconnell and Tyrone and their associates left Lough Swilly in...
By Andrew Totten Around AD 590, somewhere along the east coast of Ireland, St Columbanus was waiting...
By Sergio Fernández Redondo Íth mac Bregoin athchonnairc hÉrinn ar tús, fescor gaimrid, a mulluch...
BY DONAL FALLON WEXFORD ORAL HISTORIES GO ONLINE The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) continues to provide an important online home for Irish primary source...
By Lar Joye Traditionally, from 1922 to 1964 the Irish Defence Forces had relied mainly on Ireland’s old colonial master, Britain, for their armaments. While in the 1930s two Landsverk L60 light tanks...
By Brian Casey Drinking at the wake of a dead person is a long-standing custom at Irish funerals. This is often about sharing memories of the deceased person and to help with the grieving process...
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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