In The Current Issue-jan-feb
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Yeats and the Bohs boys
Celebrating Ireland’s computer science pioneers
ON THIS DAY
By Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
By Donal Fallon
Platform
Last orders for the Decade of Centenaries
By John Gibney
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Community Library/St Dominic’s Church, Athy, Co. Kildare
By Damian Murphy
KINDRED LINES:
Artisans’ and labourers’ cottages
By Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Dalway/Chichester duelling pistols
By Hugh Stephenson
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
The Canon Dwyer Collection
By Rene Franklin Lynch
100 YEARS AGO:
Four IRA leaders executed in Mountjoy Jail
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork)
By Sylvie Kleinman
MUSEUM EYE:
The Bishop’s Palace, Waterford
By Donal Fallon
SEEN ON STAGE:
The Great Pacificator by Sigerson Clifford
By Donal Fallon
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Mannion and McGarry (eds), The Irish revolution: a global history
Reviewed by John Horne
Book Reviews
Coleman, Duffy and O’Keeffe (eds), Ireland and the Crusades
By Grace O’Keeffe
Murtagh, Irish artisans and radical politics, 1776–1820: apprenticeship to
revolution
By Jim Smyth
Casey, The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99
By Felix M. Larkin
Machnamh: Memory, History and Imagination
By Colum Kenny
Features
POLITICS
Sefraid Ó Fearghail and Anghaile, 1271–1318
By Stephen Hewer
RELIGION:
Miler Magrath, the enigmatic archbishop
By Patrick J. Ryan
SOURCES:
The trial of Revd William Jackson, April 1795
By Ruairí Nolan
PROPHECY:
1825—the apocalypse in Ireland
By Thomas P. Power
NAVAL:
The take-over of the naval dockyard at Haulbowline, 1923
By Daire Brunicardi
ART:
‘No thatched cottages’—representing the Irish Free State at Chicago’s World’s Fair
By Billy Shortall
PARTITION:
A union severed? Loyalists in Irish Free State border counties, 1922–7
By Jack Hepworth
INTERNATIONAL:
Ireland and East Central Europe: parallels in border revision
By Erik Stewart
REPUTATIONS:
Oliver J. Flanagan—populist firebrand in 1940s Ireland
By Michael Loughman
