In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The story of Clones lace
Dianne McPhelim
Plan S
Jacqueline Hill
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Cruise family in Ireland
Seán Mac Mathúna (1876–1949)
Rome v. Republic
Sir Paul Strzelecki
Was the War of Independence necessary?
Platform
‘War comics without the humour’ v. ‘Sistine Chapel-lite’?
Bill Rolston
KINDRED LINES:
Inventing invention
Fiona Fitzsimons
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin
Muirne Lyons
ARTEFACTS:
The Irish Army and the Emergency
Lar Joye
100 YEARS AGO:
First War of Independence raid on British soldiers (and first reprisal), Fermoy, September 1919
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
I Dolours
Brian Hanley
MUSEUM EYE:
Monaghan County Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Whelan, Ireland’s revolutionary diplomat: a biography of Leopold Kerney
By Manus O’Riordan
Book Reviews
Covington, Carey and McGowan-Doyle (eds), Early modern Ireland: new sources, methods, and perspectives
By Simon Egan
Lysaght, Welsh Óg—a Clare storyteller: three stories
By Thomas O’Loughlin
Toby, Taking Shergar: thoroughbred racing’s most famous cold case
By Dean Jobb
O’Rourke, A short history of Brexit
By Eoin Dillon
Features
ECONOMY:
Mapping and measuring the impact of the Bruce invasion
Chris Chevallier
SOURCES:
A newly discovered poem from County Offaly in the 1641 Rebellion
Jane Maxwell
REVISION:
Catholic ‘Hessians’?
Nicholas Dunne-Lynch
IRISH ABROAD:
The 1863 Boston draft riot
Joe Regan
FILM:
John Stahl’s Parnell (1937)
Tony Tracy
VEXILLOLOGY:
The role of flags and emblems in Irish commemorations
Stan Zamyatin
ART:
Albert Power’s bust of Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920)
Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch
CULTURE:
The Radical Club: a 1920s forum for ‘progressive cultural activity’
Brian Trench
FOREIGN POLICY:
Irish neutrality in the Second World War
John Gibney and Michael Kennedy
