In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The real origins of the Irish Independent
Felix M. Larkin
De Gaulle in Ireland, 1969
Sylvie Kleinman
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Brian O’Higgins and Holocaust denial
Was the War of Independence necessary?
Six men arrested after Knocklong rescue
Correction
The Bremen today
An English invasion, 1169?
Platform
The definition of British rule in Ireland as ‘usurpation’
Brian P. Murphy OSB
KINDRED LINES:
Tithe Applotment Books
Fiona Fitzsimons
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Strongstream Mill
Shay Kinsella
ARTEFACTS:
Internment during the War of Independence
Lar Joye
100 YEARS AGO:
Volunteer oath to the Dáil
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Rome v. Republic
Mary Kenny
MUSEUM EYE:
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Beiner, Forgetful remembrance: social forgetting and vernacular historiography of a rebellion in Ulster
By Angus Mitchell
Book Reviews
Gibney, A short history of Ireland 1500–2000
By Evan Comerford
Watt, Popular protest and policing in Ascendency Ireland, 1691–1761
By Myrtle Hill
Walsh, Kilkenny in times of revolution 1900–1923
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
McCann, Burnt out: how the Troubles began
By Brian Hanley
Features
ECONOMY:
What was the distribution of wealth in Ireland c. 1300?
Chris Chevallier
REPUTATIONS:
Berkeley vs Walton
Clare Moriarty
BICENTENARY:
Peterloo—an Irish tragedy?
Mairtín Ó Catháin
MILITARY:
Ireland’s forgotten ‘Great War’?
Damian Shiels
SPORT:
‘The Champion Kiely’—Ireland’s greatest athlete?
Christopher Warner
LABOUR:
‘Meath is rich, Meath’s workers are poor’
Terry Dunne
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
Shooting ‘the Dog’
Seán Ryan
REVISION:
The Battle of the Four Courts, 28–30 June 1922
Michael Fewer
RELICS:
The Notre Dame fire and the cult of relics
Niamh Wycherley
