In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Three EPIC exhibitions
Angela Byrne
Victorian and modern prison regimes on Spike Island, Co. Cork
Barra Ó Donnabháin
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Dairy processing not ‘exclusively cooperative’ after 1927
‘An irregular junta’
RMS Leinster
Platform:
Would the countess have supported repeal of the 8th?
Mary Kenny
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
The tower on Mullagh Hill, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
Rachel McKenna
ARTEFACTS:
The 69th ‘Fighting Irish’ Regiment in the First World War
Lar Joye
KINDRED LINES:
Morgue and coroners’ records
Fiona Fitzsimons
100 YEARS AGO:
The 1918 general election
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr.
Reviews
WHAT’S ON FILM:
The man with the hat: the revolutionary life and times of Seán Garland
Brian Hanley
MUSEUM EYE:
GAA Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
Joe Culley
The Big Book
Kelly (ed.), Cambridge history of Ireland, Vol. III: 1730–1880
By Timothy Murtagh
Book Reviews
Booker, Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval Ireland: the English and Irish of the four obedient shires
By Simon Egan
Lenihan and Sidwell (eds), Poema de Hibernia: a Jacobite Latin epic on the Williamite Wars
By Thomas
Black Evershed, Ghosts of the Somme
By Brian Hanley
Grayson, Dublin’s great wars: the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution
By John Gibney
Features
CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2018:
Muirchú’s Life of St Patrick and the history of fifth-century Ulster
Patrick McDonagh
TRANSPORT:
The Abergele mail train disaster, 1868
Bryan MacMahon
FIRST WORLD WAR:
How the Central Powers were defeated, July–November 1918
Mark Phelan
FIRST WORLD WAR:
The new world order, post-1918
John Horne
FIRST WORLD WAR:
Sphagnum moss and female agency
Monika Barget, Pádraig MacCarron and Susan Schreibman
FIRST WORLD WAR:
Armistice Days
Barbara Walsh
1918 GENERAL ELECTION:
Kevin O’Shiel and the North Fermanagh campaign
Daniel Purcell
1918 GENERAL ELECTION:
Cars, canvassing and conveyance during the election
Leanne Blaney
REPUTATIONS:
‘Friend of the poor’: Dora Maguire
James Curry
