In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
British soldier ‘disappeared’ by IRA found
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
The Monaghan Spitfire exhibition
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Independence Day
Duchy of Lorraine
Black ’47
Bandon Valley killings
The anti-conscription general strike
When did the War of Independence start?
Judging the Catholic Church
Church Archives
Platform
Hands off Dublin’s twentieth-century architectural heritage!
Ruth McManus
ARTEFACTS:
The Bantry Boat
Lar Joye
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Ballysakeery glebe house, Co. Mayo
David Hicks
KINDRED LINES:
Medical drawings, RCSI
Fiona Fitzsimons
100 YEARS AGO:
‘Gaelic Sunday’, 4 August 1918
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr.
Reviews
SEEN ON-LINE:
The Irish Independence Film Collection
John Gibney
MUSEUM EYE:
‘National Treasures—a people’s archive’
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
King, Michael Davitt, after the Land League 1882–1906
By Conor McNamara
Book Reviews
Farrell, The ‘mere’ Irish and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570–1641
By James O’Neill
Mac Suibhne, The end of outrage: post-Famine adjustment in rural Ireland
By Emily Mark-FitzGerald
Wills, Lovers and strangers
By Mary Kenny
Holohan, Reframing Irish youth in the sixties
By Tom Inglis
Features
CHURCH HISTORY:
The curse of St Laurence O’Toole
Jesse Harrington
TERCENTENARY:
Nano Nagle—an unconventional woman
Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle
ENGINEERING:
Captain Bligh and Bull Island
Rob Goodbody and Richard Nairn
SOURCES:
Viscount Hugh Gough—an ‘illustrious Irishman’ and controversial British military commander
Fionnuala Walsh
RACISM:
James D. Phelan and the ‘Yellow Peril’ race controversy
Mark Phelan
PHILOSOPHY:
Wittgenstein’s Irish cottage
John Hayes
ECONOMICS:
‘A higher tribunal than the House of Lords’
Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp
SEXUALITY:
Women’s magazines and the Irish ‘guilt complex’ in the 1960s
Ciara Meehan
MUSIC:
A short history of the uilleann pipes
Terry Moylan
