In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Dictionary of Irish Biography now open-access
Terry Clavin
That Churchill bust … the Irish connection
Úna Ní Bhroiméil
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Patrick Maume and revisionism
The Dead of the Irish Revolution
Correction
The Famine and ‘front-line workers’
Dr Arthur Barry and Dr Kieran O’Driscoll misidentified
Access denied
Martin Haverty (1809–87), historian, journalist, writer
B-men weapons
Platform
‘Deoldifying’ Ireland
Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Áras na hOidhreachta, Church Lane, Kilkenny
Colm Murray
KINDRED LINES:
Wills and testamentary records
Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Dan Breen’s ‘wanted’ poster
Cian Flaherty
100 YEARS AGO:
Seán Mac Eoin escape attempts
Joseph E. A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Elizabeth R
Hiram Morgan
MUSEUM EYE:
Casino Model Railway Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
McLoughlin and O’Connor, In Spanish trenches: the minds and deeds of the Irish who fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War
By Maurice J. Casey
Book Reviews
Kelly (ed.), The MacEgan legal treatise
By Catherine Swift
Gibbons, Partition: how and why Ireland was divided
By Cormac Moore
Gale and Walser, DeLorean time machine: Doc Brown’s owners’ workshop manual
By James Bartlett
Brady and O’Connell (eds), Dublin by design: architecture and the city
By Joseph Brady
Features
RELIGION:
The Carthusians in Ireland
Yvonne McDermott
RELICS:
The Templars and the mysterious Holy Rood of Ballinrobe
Michael Brabazon
SOURCES:
Ireland and the ‘£20 million swindle’
Sylvie Kleinman
LITERATURE:
The ‘poor scholar’ in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing
Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey
THEATRE:
Pantomime
Laura Marriott
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I:
The burning of the Custom House, 25 May 1921
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II:
Arguments for the parliament of Southern Ireland, 1921
M.C. Rast
BEYOND 2022:
‘The great untilled field’—the Public Record Office of Ireland, 1867–1922
Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace
80 YEARS AGO:
When neutral Ireland’s emergency services went to war
Pat Poland
