In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Estella Solomons: Still Moments
New on-line documentary on the Battle of Benburb
ON THIS DAY
By Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
By Donal Fallon
Letters
Commemorating the RIC
Pathological optimism?
Who speaks for Ulster?
Sligo’s Noble Six
An ancient Ulster tradition
Menstrual blood
Platform
The Irish Land Commission records, 1881–1992—a case for the digitisation of them all
By Terence Dooley
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
St John’s Church, John Street, Kilkenny
By Damian Murphy
KINDRED LINES:
Outrage Reports
By Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Bás Beatha—surviving a nuclear war in Ireland
By Lar Joye
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
Gweedore Hotel visitors’ books, 1842–74
By Niamh Brennan
100 YEARS AGO:
Erskine Childers executed
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Ardal O’Hanlon: tomb raider
By Sylvie Kleinman
MUSEUM EYE:
GAA Museum, Croke Park
By Donal Fallon
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Keogh, Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century: diaspora, diplomacy, dictatorship, Catholic
Reviewed by Michael Kennedy
Wilson, Canadian spy story: Irish revolutionaries and the secret police
By Dean Jobb
Ó Corráin and Hanley, Cathal Brugha: ‘an indomitable spirit’
By Gerard Shannon
Travers, Donegal: the Irish revolution, 1912–23
By John Dorney
Fitzpatrick and O’Dowd (eds), Sisters: nine families of sisters who made a difference
By Mary Kenny
Features
LEGAL
From Runnymede to County Meath—Magna Carta and Magna Carta Hiberniae
By James K. Meighan
CHIEFS’ PRIZE:
‘No mean diplomat’: the gift exchange practices of Shane O’Neill, a Renaissance Gaelic lord
By Melissa Sheils
REPUTATIONS:
Colonel Ned Despard, the Irishman hanged in London for high treason in 1803— traitor or martyr?
By Teddy Fennelly
BEETHOVEN AND IRELAND:
Beethoven’s ‘Immortal Beloved’—a possible Irish connection
By Andreas Boldt
FAMINE RELIEF:
The American dollars that saved Ireland in 1880
By Evan Comerford
CENTENARY:
Peace, partition and the revolutionary mind—the ineffable friendship of Erskine Childers and Alice Stopford Green
By Angus Mitchell
DIASPORA:
Services for 1950s Irish emigrants—battleground for Church, State and communism
By Brian Harvey
INTERNATIONAL:
Ireland and the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
By John Mulqueen
DIPLOMACY:
Escape from Biafra—an Irish diplomat’s account of an evacuation, 1967
By John Gibney
LANGUAGE:
One hundred years of Irish language policy
By John Walsh
