In the current issue
History Ireland NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2024
- The arrival of King Henry II in Waterford
- MI6’s spies in Garda intelligence—new evidence
- The 1974 pub bombings and the Irish in Birmingham
- The convening of the Irish Boundary Commission
- Belfast woman Elizabeth Shaw’s Stasi file
- Three women of the O’Byrnes—perspectives on Gaelic political marriage in the sixteenth century
- Donnchad mac Briain, Henry II and the crown of Ireland
By Michael Flavin On Thursday 21 November 1974, a small IRA unit in Birmingham, acting without...
By David Burke Previously in History Ireland (HI 26.3, May/June 2018) Margaret Urwin and Niall...
By Fergal Lenehan Diplomatic relations between Ireland and the German Democratic Republic (GDR)...
By Felix Larkin Dublin Opinion, the self-styled ‘national humorous journal of Ireland’, was...
By Cormac Moore One hundred years ago, on 6 November 1924, the Irish Boundary Commission convened...
By Cora Crampton Up to the end of the sixteenth century the Gaelic polity relied heavily on...
By Jesse Harrington In two parliamentary questions in June 2024, Clare TD Cathal Crowe called for a...
By Damien McLellan In the second episode of the recent RTÉ TV documentary Invasion: The Normans...
Regulars
On this, the 50th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Soviet...
My ‘first’ Olympic Games were in 1972—no, not as a competitor, but as a schoolboy spectator on...
BY DONAL FALLON ALEXANDER ECTOR ORR REMEMBERED A new plaque has been unveiled in Strabane in honour of Alexander Ector Orr (1831–1914). Described by the...
By Lar Joye The Irish Air Corps was created in early 1922 and saw combat during the Civil War. Like the rest of the Defence Forces, however, its budget was limited in the years prior to the Emergency...
From The Archives
Michael Collins military dictator
By John M. Regan This article first appeared in: THE SPLIT-Treaty to Civil War 1921–23 published by Wordwell as a supplement to History Ireland in 2021 priced €12. Copies are still available
The Truce and preliminary negotiations between de Valera and Lloyd George
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr As British hopes for a military victory in the War of Independence faded, they began to wonder whether Ireland was worth the price in lives
Lively round-table discussions
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Forthcoming Hedge Schools
Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities.
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