‘A Star Chamber affair’: the death of Timothy Coughlan (3:1)

Gabriel Doherty It is a dry, frosty January night in Dublin. Suddenly the silence of a suburban street is shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire: it appears that an […]

Re-presenting war: the Somme Heritage Centre (3:1)

David Officer Historians of Ireland regularly harp on about the often blunt and crude forms in which the past is mobilised by contemporary interests. However, historians themselves pay scant attention […]

Languedoc in Laois: The Huguenots of Portarlington (3:1)

John S. Powell It was a sure sign that the Huguenot plantation of Portarlington in County Laois was dead when a historian turned it into an article (Sir Erasmus Borrowes […]

Irish Credit Unions: a success story (3:1)

Anthony P. Quinn A credit union is a mutual society, owned and run by the members on a democratic co-operative basis to provide a savings and loan service. Co-operation, a […]

‘Devices made by magic’: an attempted escape from Dublin Castle in 1332 (3:1)

Philomena Connolly On 11 July 1332, Sir William Bermingham was taken from Dublin Castle where he had been imprisoned, and was hanged by order of Anthony Lucy, the justiciar. The […]