In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Captain Swayne and the Battle of Prosperous, 24 May 1798
Fergal Browne
Violence, Ridicule and Silence
Jane Maxwell
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealy
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Bandon Valley
The Catholic Church
General Franco and ‘mainstream historians’
When did the War of Independence start?
Correction
‘Mind the flag’
The anti-conscription general strike
Platform
An ‘Independence Day’ for Ireland?
Dennis Kennedy
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin
Sarah Buckley
ARTEFACTS:
Anti-suffragette postcards, c. 1913
Donna Gilligan
KINDRED LINES:
Travellers and family history
Fiona Fitzsimons
100 YEARS AGO:
The ‘German plot’
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
WHAT’S ON FILM:
Black ’47
Emily Mark-FitzGerald
SEEN ON TV:
The Irish in Peaky Blinders
Brian Hanley
MUSEUM EYE:
Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
Joe Culley
The Big Book
Stout, Early medieval Ireland 431–1169
By Pat Wallace
Book Reviews
Nagle, Histories and nationalism in Ireland and Germany: a comparative study from 1800 to 1932
By Angus Mitchell
O’Brien, Havoc: the Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence
By Eamonn T. Gardiner
Ryan, My life in the IRA: the border campaign
By Fergus Whelan
Farrell, Unwinnable: Britain’s war in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
By Lar Joye
Features
POLITICS:
A ‘new departure’ in mid-Tudor Ireland?
Alan Bryson
IRISH ABROAD:
Duke Leopold’s Irish subjects and Jacobitism in Lorraine, 1698–1727
Stephen Griffin and Jérémy Filet
FAMINE:
Conspicuous consumption during the Great Hunger
Edmund O’Riordan
AFRICA:
Harry Grattan Guinness’s journey from preaching to politics
Catherine Guinness
FRANCHISE:
The Representation of the People Act 1918
Brian Walker
CONSTITUTION:
Women’s opposition to the 1937 Constitution
Joyce Padbury
NEW IN MSS:
James W. Upton’s unpublished silver jubilee history of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Tony Keating and Mark Reynolds
ESPIONAGE:
The 1972–3 Dublin bombings
Margaret Urwin and Niall Meehan
