In The Current Issue-APRIL-MAY
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT 75
THE ‘RED LIBRARY’ OF HENRIETTA STREET
ON THIS DAY
By Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
By Donal Fallon
LETTERS
West Cork History Festival
RIC and RCMP
Prince Andrew’s ‘Great Game’
The Great Pacificator and Brian O’Higgins Senior
Democracy vs oligarchy
Platform
John Charles McQuaid reassessed?
By Mary Kenny
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Iveagh Trust Public Baths, Dublin
By Damian Murphy
KINDRED LINES:
Irish Traditional Music Archive
By Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Anglo Irish Bank sign
By Lar Joye
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
The significance of the sanitary officer
By Joanne Rothwell
100 YEARS AGO:
Austin Stack is arrested
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
FILM WATCH:
The Wonder
By Maud Ellmann
SEEN ON TV:
Ar Lorg na Fírinne—Game of Truth
By Sylvie Kleinman
MUSEUM EYE:
Clery’s: The Archives
By Donal Fallon
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Duffy, Montague, Mulligan and O’Neill, Dublin Castle: from fortress to palace. Vol. 1. Vikings to Victorians: a history of Dublin Castle to 1850
Reviewed by John Gibney
Book Reviews
Ayiotis, The Military Archives: a history
By Marie Coleman
O’Connor, Rotten Prod: the unlikely career of Dongaree Baird
By Jim Smith
Ali, Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes
By Kevin Kiely
Ó Fathartaigh, Developing rural Ireland: a history of the Irish agricultural advisory services
By Trevor Storey
Features
PRINT:
From Elizabeth to Elizabeth
By Dermot McGuinne
RELIGION:
Comprehending contemplation—the Poor Clare Order in Ireland
By Bronagh Ann McShane
FIRE-FIGHTING:
‘Queen’s College Cork is in flames!’
By Pat Poland
SPORT:
‘The wrestling rage’—the world championship tournament in Dublin, 1907
By Ronan Mulhaire
CIVIL WAR I:
‘I am confident that if we stand united victory is certain’—Liam Lynch’s strategies in the final months of the Civil War
By Gerard Shannon
CIVIL WAR II:
Thomas Keating—a Civil War killing
By David Prendergast
HOUSING:
73 Eccles Street—recreating a Dublin tenement 1915–20
By Ken Boyle
COLLUSION:
Brian Nelson—the rise and fall of a double agent
By Ian S. Wood
