In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Keeping Celtic Studies alive in Germany
Laura Patz
Offaly Archives
Lisa Shortall
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Aristocracy/landed gentry/ascendancy
Captain O’Shea—the Limerick connection
Tone not related to Wolfe
Appeal for information on Nenagh military history
Partition
Bethany Home latest—ten years and one Commission of Investigation report later
Platform
Understanding our own ignorance
Patrick Maume
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Scots’ Church, Athy Road, Carlow
Simonas Vilcauskis
KINDRED LINES:
Directories as a source for family history
Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
1916–21 military service medals
Lar Joye
100 YEARS AGO:
The Crossbarry ambush
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr.
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
The Hunger: the story of the Irish famine
Donal Fallon
MUSEUM EYE:
Waterford Treasures: a virtual tour
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
O’Halpin and Ó Corráin, The dead of the Irish revolution
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Book Reviews
Bruce, Ireland’s hope: the ‘peculiar theories’ of James Fintan Lalor
By Emmet O’Connor
O’Sullivan Greene, Crowdfunding the revolution: the First Dáil Loan and the battle for Irish independence
By Paschal Donoghue TD
Moylan (ed.), A living voice: the Frank Harte song collection
By Donal Fallon
MACHNAMH 100
By Colum Kenny
Features
ART & RELIGION:
St Patrick in Italy
Brenda Moore-McCann
MILITARY:
The Battle of Culloden
Stephen McGarry
HEALTH:
Plus ça change? Epidemic disease and social reaction
Laurence Geary
MIGRATION:
Dr Richard Blennerhassett and the Wends of Texas
Bryan MacMahon
POLICING:
The creation of the Ulster Special Constabulary, 1920
Seán Bernard Newman
LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
Limerick City Night Watch
Tadhg Moloney
CELEBRITY:
The ‘Singing Cowboy’ in Ireland
Ronan Doheny
NUMISMATICS:
The 1972 Northern Ireland twopence piece
Mark Stocker
IDENTITY:
Post-independence perspectives on ‘Irishness’ and identity
Raymond M. Keogh
