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REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Sources For Irish Women’s History

Remembering Godfrey Quigley
ON THIS DAY
By Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY
By Donal Fallon

LETTERS
Lest We Forget
Niall Meehan’s Review Of Rotten Prod
The Keatings And Other Deise Republicans
Ric, Rcmp And Tps
O’connell School Alumni And The Revolutionary Decade
Disappointed
Brian Nelson

PLATFORM:
A Library By Any Other Name?
By Clare Marie Moriarty

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Erasmus Smith House College Road, Ennis, Co. Clare
By Damian Murphy

KINDRED LINES:
‘Home Children’—An Irish Perspective, 1860s To 1922
By Fiona Fitzsimons

ARTEFACTS:
Jack Comer’s Tintown Autograph Book
By Úna Kavanagh

LOCAL ARCHIVES:
All To One Side Like Moynalty’—The Farrell Estate Maps
By Patricia Fallon

100 YEARS AGO:
Frank Aiken Gives The Order To Dump Arms
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

SEEN ON TV:
Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer
By Sylvie Kleinman

SEEN ON STAGE:
The Rté All-Ireland Drama Festival, 1953–2023
By Fiona Brennan

MUSEUM EYE:
‘The Holy Hour: A Requiem For Brendan Behan’
By Donal Fallon

Bookworm
By Joe Culley

The Big Book
Commanders Of The British Forces In Ireland 1796–1922

Reviewed by Daniel Ayiotis

Book Reviews
Botany And Gardens In Early Modern Ireland
Reviewed By Mary Davies
Three Castles Burning: A History Of Dublin In Twelve Streets
Reviewed By Evan Comerford
Soccer And Society: A History Of Association Football In Ireland’s Capital
Reviewed By Brian Trench
The Way We Were: Catholic Ireland Since 1922
Reviewed By Sarah-Anne Buckley

Features

SAINTS:
St Sunniva—Ireland’s Medieval Martyr-Queen
By Meredith Cutrer

ECONOMY:
Castilian–Irish Trade In The Later Middle Ages
By Gonzalo Franco-Ordovás

LITERATURE:
‘Hugon Come Erindwards’—James Joyce’s Huguenots
By Martin Green

REVISION:
The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake And Tsunami And The Impact On The Coast Of Cork
By Michael Gibbons

ETHNICITY:
Gypsies In Ireland—A Hiberno-Romany Community
By David Joyce

REPUTATIONS:
Laurence Ginnell (1852–1923), One Of The Truly Global Figures Of The Irish Revolution
By Paul Hughes

BEYOND 2022:
‘Born From Fire’—The Public Record Office Of Northern Ireland At 100
By Tim Murtagh and Stephen Scarth

MEMOIR:
‘Somewhere Entirely Different’— Inisheer In The 1960s
By Dennis Kennedy



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