THE BIG BOOK: CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF IRELAND, VOL. II: 1550–1730

JANE OHLMEYER (ed.) Cambridge University Press £100 ISBN 9781107117631 Reviewed by Hiram Morgan Ireland 1550–1730 is the second of four volumes intended as a flagship series on the history of […]

H.T. Barrie—the forgotten man of Ulster politics?

The Right Honourable Senator Hugh Thom Barrie JP, DL, MP was at the heart of Ulster Unionist politics at a time of great campaigning and political battles. But who was […]

Registers of Licences to pass beyond the seas, 1573–1677

By Fiona Fitzsimons This collection, the earliest run of travel documents, survives in the Augmentation Office papers in the Exchequer records of the UK National Archives. The Office derived from […]

The creation of the Irish National Foresters Benefit Society, 1877

Friendly societies played a vital role in mitigating the worst material consequences of illness and hardship. By Joe Fodey The Irish National Foresters (INF) was probably the most famous and […]

The ‘healing clay’ of Boho

From superstition to Streptomyces. By Eugene Dunphy On the morning of Sunday 2 January 1842, two unnamed young men set out on a mission. A relative of one suffered from […]