In the current issue
History Ireland JULY / AUGUST 2025
- The hidden victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars
- The Callahans and the Murphys and twentieth-century cancel culture
- Robert Dudley Edwards and the Quaker undercurrent to the Irish scientific history revolution
- Cricket in Fingal
- Ireland beautiful—how a 1925 American photobook boosted Irish tourism
- The first Blueshirts—the British Fascisti in Ireland 1923–35
- Spain, her Irish officers and the ’45
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue we take a closer look at four films that focus on acts of protest...
By Neasa MacErlean Robert Dudley Edwards is known as much for his eccentricity as for his work in...
By Desmond Gibney This story begins with a photograph of a grave-marker bearing the name of RAF...
By James Bennett ‘There are more cricket clubs and unofficial “elevens” in Co. Dublin per square...
By Christopher S. Connelly Last year the Irish Film Institute Archive announced the discovery of...
By Mark Holan American photographer and antiquarian Wallace Nutting drove through all 32 counties of...
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc One spring morning in 1923 Rotha Lintorn-Orman, former head of the British...
By Anthony Barrett Over the winter months of 1922/3, by which time the Irish Civil War had devolved...
By John Gleeson When an eighteen-year-old Kerryman named John Sullivan arrived at a famous French...
By Stephen Griffin Irish émigrés are recorded in the Iberian peninsula from the sixteenth century...
By Cora Crampton A number of years ago I encountered a difficulty in progressing a promising...
By Fiona Fitzsimons Founded in 1731 as a philanthropic organisation and members’ club, the Dublin...
Regulars
Our front cover features a painting of the Lancaster bomber—VN-Z ME798—crewed by Irish airman...
Our front cover features a painting of the Lancaster bomber—VN-Z ME798—crewed by Irish airman...
BY DONAL FALLON ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY 195th SHOW OPENS The Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Show has returned, running until August 2025. This is the 195th...
By Lar Joye J.P. Duggan in his history of the Irish Army observed that in the 1930s sport was one of the cheaper means of keeping interest alive in the forces. In January 1933 the assistant chief of...
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
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