In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
A piece of commercial art with a political message?
Tony Canavan
Hardiman’s History of Galway 200 years on
John Cunningham
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
OBITUARY
Margaret MacCurtain
Thomas O’Loughlin
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Pogrom?
Corrections
Revisionism
Idly?
Frederick Shaw (not Abraham Brewster)
in cartoon
Thomas McCabe and slavery
Roger McCorley
Platform
Truth and history
Padraig Yeates
KINDRED LINES:
Tracing BAME people in Ireland c. 1700–1922
Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
Annie Burke’s Bloody Sunday glasses
Siobhán Doyle
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Egan’s, 31–32 St Patrick’s Street, Cork
Pat Ruane
100 YEARS AGO:
Bloody Sunday
Joseph E.A. Connell Jr.
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Building Ireland: Marino garden suburb
Donal Fallon
MUSEUM EYE:
Louth County Museum
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Books
Kennedy, O’Halpin and Whelan (eds), Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Volume XII: 1961–1965
By Deaglán de Bréadún
Book Reviews
Whelan, May tyrants tremble: the life of William Drennan, 1754–1820
By Tim Murtagh
Walker, Irish history matters: politics, identities and commemoration
By John Gibney
Kinsella, Dublin City University 1980–2020: designed to be different
By Colum Kenny
Fitzgibbon, US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen: domestic
politics and the Afghan war
By Angus Mitchell
Features
CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2020:
The tánaiste and the crown prince problem
Matthew McGinty
CLASS:
Life downstairs in Newbridge House
Cathal Dowd Smith
RACE:
Tony Small, friend and manservant of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Laura McKenna
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE I:
The curious case of the ‘Sinn Féin typhoid plot’
Michael B. Barry
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE II:
The Kilmichael ambush and the outer limits of Irish historical revisionism
John Regan
PARTITION:
The Government of Ireland Act 1920
Cormac Moore
DIASPORA:
Hugh Mahon, the Irishman expelled from the Australian parliament
Jeff Kildea
FOLKLORE:
Food for humans, fairies and the dead at Hallowe’en
Regina Sexton
SOURCES:
The Dublin Port Company photographic archive
Aidan Crawley
