In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Thomas D’Arcy McGee—Ireland’s lost patriot
Ian Ashe
St Brigid’s Day Festival celebrates Irish-Australian women
Jeff Gildea
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
Letters
Irish ‘patriots’
Forgotten revolution: the Limerick Soviet 1919
Liam O’Flaherty’s ‘disillusionment’ with the Soviet Union?
RIC—the North–South dimension
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Platform
Spinning the Terror
Sylvie Kleinman
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Ballintubber Abbey, Co. Mayo
Damian Murphy
ARTEFACTS:
Weapons of the RIC (1822–1922)
Lar Joye
KINDRED LINES:
Schulze Marriage Register
Fiona Fitzsimons
100 YEARS AGO:
The Black and Tans deployed
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
RADIO EAR:
History in Residence and The Emergency: creative freedom in wartime Dublin
John Gibney
MUSEUM EYE:
National Photographic Archive
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Simms, Hitler: only the world was enough
By Geoffrey Roberts
Book Reviews
Canning, The Old English in early modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594–1603
By Henry A. Jefferies
Haddick-Flynn, Orangeism: a historical profile
By Geoffrey Bell
Doherty, Irish liberty, British democracy: the third Irish Home Rule crisis, 1909–14
By Martin O’Donoghue
Mulqueen, ‘An alien ideology’: Cold War perceptions of the Irish republican left
By Ruan O’Donnell
Features
GEOGRAPHY:
The Scandinavian impact—a geographical exploration
William J. Smyth
FIRE-FIGHTING:
The role of the Church of Ireland in early fire-fighting
Pat Poland
HERALDRY:
Hervey Morres and ‘the Montmorency imposture’
Conleth Manning
PENOLOGY:
Early nineteenth-century Irish prisons
Richard Butler
ADMINISTRATION:
The first Irish Department of Finance
Frank Cogan
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
The targeting of District Inspector Hunt
Neville O’Connell
REPUTATIONS:
Margaret Skinnider
Mary McAuliffe
INTERNATIONAL:
Neither Suvla nor Sedd-ul-Bahr
Merve Dogan Kader and Seán Patrick Smyth
SPORT:
The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956
Cian Manning
SONG:
‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’
Michael Halpenny
