In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The wreck of HMS Wasp, 1884
Tom Sigafoos
The Reids of Ramelton, Jamaica, Glasgow and Belfast
Dermot Scott
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Patrick Maume and revisionism
‘Champion of the Slaves’
‘The failings of past generations’?
Pewter cup
Teaching Council of Ireland history requirement
OBITUARY:
Seamus Deane
Kevin Whelan
Platform
The ever-complicated relationship between Ireland and the UK
Aileen Bowe
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Smokehouse at Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
Damian Murphy
ARTEFACTS:
British Army armoured cars in the War of Independence
Lar Joye
KINDRED LINES:
The 1939 Registers
Fiona Fitzsimons
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
The Barton Papers in Wicklow County Archives
Catherine Wright
100 YEARS AGO:
The Truce and preliminary negotiations between de Valera and Lloyd George
Joseph E. A. Connell Jr
Reviews
WHAT’S ON STAGE:
Terence MacSwiney—playwright and patriot
Fiona Brennan
SEEN ON TV:
Spotlight: A contested centenary
Donal Fallon
MUSEUM EYE:
Carlingford Heritage Centre
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Books
Parkinson, A difficult birth: the early years of Northern Ireland, 1920–25;
Magill, Political conflict in east Ulster 1920–22: revolution and reprisal
By Seán Bernard Newman
Book Reviews
Martyn, The tribes of Galway, 1124–1642
By Andreas Boldt
Kinmonth, Irish country furniture and furnishings, 1700–2000
By John Gibney
Milligan, Painting Dublin 1886–1949: visualising a changing city
By Sylvie Kleinman
Collins and Meehan, Saving the state: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar
By Barry Walsh
Features
MEDIEVAL HERITAGE:
The remnants of William Marshal’s lordship in Leinster today
John Marshall
PIONEER:
‘Deaf Liberator’—the life and times of Francis Maginn, 1861– 1918
Noel O’Connell
CARTOGRAPHY:
Mapping for wheels—maps for Ireland’s first cycling revolution, 1880–1920
Arnold Horner
ASSASSINATION:
The Fenian plot to kill the future King George V
Dean Jobb
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I:
The rebel priests of Mullagh—Fr Pat Gaynor, Fr Michael McKenna and the War of Independence
Áine Hensey
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II:
‘We English protest’—Margaret Buckmaster’s peace crusade
Eugene Dunphy
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE III:
The 1921 elections to the Northern Ireland parliament
Elaine Callinan
CLASS & COLONIALISM:
The Leinster Regiment and the Malabar rebellion of 1921—‘another Irish question’
Terry Dunne
