In the current issue
History Ireland SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2026
- James Joyce: a political life
- Roger Casement and the Congo today
- Gulliver’s Travels @ 300
- The history of science in Ireland—why the neglect?
- The Waterford County election of 1826
- Wexford Festival Opera—75 years on
- Dublin Civic Weeks— modernity, art and industry in the 1920s
By Dave Alvey In the course of delivering a lecture on Roger Casement in February 2026 in the...
By Nicky Rossiter In a small town in the south-east corner of this small island in 1951 a seed was...
By Billy Shortall The Dublin Civic Weeks (DCWs) of 1927 and 1929 were public events managed by...
By Robin Fuller Are Irish people descended from the inhabitants of the sunken continent of Atlantis?...
By Simon Briercliffe In 1936 the Irish Independent reported that a new memorial had been erected in...
By Loretto Leary In the second half of the nineteenth century, Irish women became the largest female...
By Eugene Broderick The June 1826 general election in County Waterford was a titanic struggle...
By David Murphy This year has seen a series of significant anniversaries connected with the American...
By Brendan Twomey On Friday 28 October 1726 some of the bewigged gentlemen sipping their coffee in...
Regulars
In this issue Brendan Twomey (pp 16–19) reminds us that Gulliver’s Travels is the most-published and...
In this issue Brendan Twomey (pp 16–19) reminds us that Gulliver’s Travels is the most-published and...
BY DONAL FALLON VIRTUAL TREASURY OF IRELAND EXPANDS Ernie O’Malley’s description of the explosion that shook the Public Records Office at the outset of the...
By Andrew Hogg New degrees were instituted progressively by the University of Dublin, Trinity College, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in response to international trends in...
By Brian Casey The long life of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy was divided into three well-defined periods, containing plenty of variety and excitement. Born in County Monaghan in 1816 of ‘good Catholic...
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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