In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
How many died in the Irish Civil War?
John Dorney
Sarah Purser—a pivotal figure in Irish art
Marie Bourke
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY:
By Donal Fallon
LETTERS:
Remember ’48
St Brigit and Faughart, Co. Louth
Ulysses as history
Loughgall ambush
Daniel Noel Kissane—an appreciation
PLATFORM:
The Law of the Innocents— Cáin Adomnáin—today
By James W. Houlihan
KINDRED LINES:
Records of the courts of petty sessions, c. 1822–1924
By Fiona Fitzsimons
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Birr Castle, Co. Offaly
By Damian Murphy
ARTEFACTS:
Oak apple in Cork
By John Stocks Powell
IFI FILM EYE:
The Callahans and the Murphys rediscovered
By Saskia Vermeulen
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
Going swimming
By Joanne Rothwell
100 YEARS AGO:
Irish made compulsory in schools
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
RADIO EAR:
It Must be Wonderful to be Free
By Eoin Dillon
SEEN ON TV:
Spotlight: The Secret Army
By Brian Hanley
WHAT’S ON STAGE:
The Pull of the Stars
By Sylvie Kleinman
MUSEUM EYE:
Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
By Donal Fallon
Bookworm:
By Daragh Fitzgerald
The Big Book:
Brown, Journeys of the mind: a life in history
By Thomas O’Loughlin
Book Reviews:
Clarke and Ní Laoi, Cork/Corcaigh: Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 31
By Fintan Lane
Arthure, James, Lonergan & McCorry (eds), Irish women in the Antipodes: Foregrounded
By Elizabeth Malcolm
Keneally, Fanatic heart
By Frank MacGabhann
McWilliams, Resting places: on wounds, war and the Irish revolution
By Barry Keane
Features
EARLY CHRISTIANITY:
Egyptian hermits and Irish high crosses
By Meredith Cutrer and Colleen M. Thomas
WEATHER:
Extremes of weather recorded in the Annals of Connacht, 1224–1562
By Charlotte Murphy
LEGAL:
Afterlives of the ‘Brehon laws’
By John Biggins
SCIENCE:
John Tyndall’s Belfast Address, 1874
By Brian Smyth
SPORT I:
The rise and fall of the ‘Winged Fist’
By Patrick R. Redmond
CENTENARY:
‘Not a weapon for soldiers to use’—Gerald Boland and the 1923 Republican hunger strike
By Stephen Kelly
SPORT II:
J.J. Keane, ‘the hot-headed Limerick man’, and the 1924 Paris Olympics
By Gerry O’Sullivan
HERITAGE:
The end of an era—the auction at Johnstown Castle, 1944
By Matt Wheeler and Duncan Laurence
