In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The lasting legacy of the last viceroy
Seán Beattie
Waterways Ireland’s archive goes digital
Nuala Reilly
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Patrick Maume and revisionism
Civil War dismissed and downplayed
Platform
Kindness, cruelty and the Nine Years’ War
Éamonn Toland
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Barlow House, West Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Aisling Durkan
ARTEFACTS:
Armoured trucks in the Irish War of Independence
Lar Joye
KINDRED LINES:
Travel permits 1940–1952
Fiona Fitzsimons
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
A mid-eighteenth-century mystery rent-book
Patria McWalter
100 YEARS AGO:
Plenipotentiaries appointed
Joseph E. A. Connell Jr
Reviews
MUSEUM EYE:
Armagh County Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Books
Bennett, Gillespie and Spurlock (eds), Cromwell and Ireland: new perspectives
By Micheál Ó Siochrú
Book Reviews
Maher (ed.), The Irish to the rescue: the tercentenary of the Polish Princess Clementina’s escape
By Tony Canavan
Leerssen (ed.), Parnell and his times
By Margaret O’Callaghan
Wheatley and Krobb (trans. & ed.), Ireland [1913] by Richard Arnold Bermann
By Róisín Healy
Deane, Small world: Ireland, 1798–2018
By Vona Groarke
Features
NAVAL:
Spanish Armada wrecks on the Irish coast
John Miles
FOLKLORE:
Swift Nix (Nicks)—an English highwayman and his Irish career
Amy L. Harris
MANUSCRIPTS:
The commissioning of Gordon O’Neill
Colum Kenny
AGRICULTURE:
Snapshot of a parish before the Famine
John Keating
MYTHOLOGY:
‘The first white man to visit America’—St Brendan in the nineteenth century
William Ward
CRIME:
The Canadian trial of the century—the story of ‘cracked Shortis’
Cian Manning
PANDEMIC:
Revisiting the demography of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Ireland
Chris Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin
EARLY LIFE:
Desmond Greaves’s formative years at the Birkenhead Institute, 1925–31
Michael Quinn
75TH ANNIVERSARY:
A brief history of the Irish Naval Service
Daire Brunicardi
PHILATELY:
The Northern Ireland ‘stamp war’, 1971–2
Matin Modarressi
