In The Current Issue
REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Jack B. Yeats: Painting & Memory
Marie Bourke
Staging the Treaty
Theo Dorgan
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY
Tony Canavan
Letters
Cromwell and Ireland: new perspectives
Truth Recovery Process
Civil War dismissed and downplayed?
Second thoughts
Platform
The Treaty—victory or defeat?
Brian Hanley
KINDRED LINES:
Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution
Fiona Fitzsimons
ARTEFACTS:
British Army First World War campaign medals
Lar Joye
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Poolbeg stacks
Emma Gilleece
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
Local authorities and ‘Emergency’ turf-cutting
Joanne Rothwell
100 YEARS AGO:
‘Articles of Agreement’ are signed
Joseph E. A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Songs for While I’m Away
Donal Fallon
MUSEUM EYE:
Irish Museum of Time, Waterford
Tony Canavan
Bookworm
By Joe Culley
The Big Books
Dickson, The first Irish cities: an eighteenth-century transformation
By John Cunningham
Book Reviews
Beattie (ed.), Donegal Annual: Columban edition
By Matthew Stout
Gribben, The rise and fall of Christian Ireland
By Mary Kenny
Eastwood, Samhain: the roots of Halloween
By Regina Sexton
Earls Fitzgerald, Combatants and civilians in revolutionary Ireland, 1918–1923
By Mary McAuliffe
Features
ANNIVERSARY
Columba 1500—the extent of our knowledge
Thomas O’Loughlin
CHIEFS’ PRIZE 2021:
An inauguration of a MacWilliam Íochtair at Rausakeera, Co. Mayo, during the Nine Years War
Declan Keenan
TRANSPORT:
Ireland’s ‘canal navigators’
Eugene Coyle
HEALTH:
Vaccination in Ireland: the evolution of a process
Laurence Geary
SECOND GLANCE:
A noble tribute—Sarah Cecilia Harrison’s portrait of Anna and Thomas Haslam
Hannah Baker
DIPLOMACY:
The Dáil cabinet’s mission to Belfast, November 1921 to January 1922
Julitta Clancy
REPUTATIONS:
Moya Llewelyn Davies: spy, stalker, patriot or fantasist?
Seán Ryan
MUSIC:
Delia Murphy—legend of Irish folk music
Aidan O’Hara
ART:
‘Giving a fart in its corduroys’—Irish attitudes to modern art
Róisín Kennedy
