In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Four Courts Press at 50
James Kelly
Grangegorman Histories: honouring the past
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
Letters
Griffith in Longford (not Sligo)
Collins killed in action, not assassinated
A new mutation of revisionism
Repatriating the remains of Patrick Sarsfield
Maurin Mitchell, Storm over Spain (1937)
Correction
Platform
Clean hands? Ireland, slavery and the slave-trade
Laurence Fenton
KINDRED LINES:
Army discharge records
Fiona Fitzsimons
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
SS Creteboom, Ballina, Co. Mayo
Damian Murphy
ARTEFACTS:
The Universal Carrier
Lar Joye
100 YEARS AGO:
Terence MacSwiney dies on hunger strike
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr.
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Hawks and Doves—the Crown and Ireland’s War of Independence
Donal Fallon
MUSEUM EYE:
Decade of Centenaries pop-up Women’s Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Book
Nuttall, Different and the same: a folk history of Protestants in independent Ireland
By Ida Milne
Book Reviews
Kelleher, The alliance of pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century
By Eamon Darcy
Urquhart, Irish divorce: a history
By Mary Kenny
O’Donoghue and O’Doherty, Irish speakers and schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the present
By Tony Lyons
Heney, The Arms Crisis of 1970: the plot that never was
By Thomas Leahy
Features
MILITARY:
The marquis de Boisseleau and the ‘Battle of the Breach’ at the first siege of Limerick, 1690
Pádraig Lenihan
LEGAL:
Abraham Brewster—from legal obscurity to lord chancellor
Rob Christie
FIRST WORLD WAR:
James Murray—a life less ordinary
John Murray
SOURCES
Facts and fallacies of the Belfast pogrom
Kieran Glennon
MUSIC:
Music for MacSwiney
Axel Klein
ADVERTISING:
Marketing the Free State in Britain
Billy Shortall
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE:
Gregory and the Swanzy riots, 1920
Ciaran Toal
PHILOSOPHY:
G.E.M. Anscombe—Irish-born philosopher
John Hayes
50 YEARS ON:
Charles J. Haughey and the Arms Crisis
Stephen Kelly
WHAT IF?:
The 1974 Ulster Workers’ Council strike and fears of British withdrawal
Ian Wood
