In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Irish research finds lost news world in Medici Archives
Eoin Hahessy
Shining a light on early town governance in New Ross
Gráinne Doran and Linda Doran
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Platform
Take it down from the mast, Irish ‘patriots’ …
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
KINDRED LINES:
Churching
Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Gladstone gone to pot
John Stocks Powell
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Lisnavagh House, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow
Turtle Bunbury
100 YEARS AGO:
Local elections bring proportional representation to Ireland
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Spotlight on the Troubles: a secret history
Brian Hanley
MUSEUM EYE:
Down County Museum, Downpatrick
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
O’Duffy, Crusade in Spain; Fanning, The Salamanca diaries: Father
McCabe and the Spanish Civil War
By John Dorney
Book Reviews
Cahill, Forgotten revolution: the Limerick Soviet 1919
By D.R. O’Connor Lysaght
Lynch, The partition of Ireland 1918–1925
By Martin Mansergh
Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist: a story of the Cold War, the New Left,
Irish republicanism, and international communism
By Anthony Coughlan
Features
ILLEGITIMACY:
Bastardy—the stain of illegitimacy in medieval Ireland
Cormac T. Hickey
TRAVEL:
Wordsworth in Ireland
Brandon C. Yen
MILITARY:
William Howard Russell at the First Battle of Bull Run, 1861
Royston Spears
PRESS:
Richard Kyle Fox and his National Police Gazette
Liam Barry-Hayes
REPUTATIONS:
Frank Hugh O’Donnell: a virulent anti-Semite
Colum Kenny
POLITICS:
British political theatre in Ireland: Winston Churchill and Belfast, 1912
M.C. Rast
INTERNATIONAL:
The Irish Revolution and the Basque nationalist movement, 1916–23
Kyle McCreanor
ANTHROPOLOGY:
De Valera, censorship and Family and community in Ireland
Anne Byrne and Eoin O’Sullivan
DIPLOMACY:
Ireland, 1949–73—a closet member of the Commonwealth?
Ben Wynne
REVISION:
Post-Bloody Sunday community politics in Derry’s Bogside
Dan Haverty
