In the current issue
History Ireland MARCH/ APRIL 2025
- ‘My enemy’s enemy …’—the 1861 Trent Affair in The Nation
- Atlas of the Irish Civil War: new perspectives
- The general and his drivers— Eoin O’Duffy’s chauffeurs
- Methodist responses to the Great Hunger
- St Vincent’s Church and the Vincentians in Cork
- On arrive!—the Irish in the Franco-Prussian War
- Lilian Lancaster’s folkloric portraits of the Irishman and St Patrick
By Paul Dixon On 12 April 1975, the general officer commanding (GOC) Northern Ireland (1973–5)...
By Tim Ellis-Dale On 2 May 1945 the streets of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, bore witness to the spectacle...
By Jack Traynor In February 1933 Eoin O’Duffy was sacked as Garda Commissioner by Éamon de Valera...
By Kieran Rankin Among the artist Lilian Lancaster’s renowned array of artfully drawn and vividly...
By John Grant When Seán O’Faolain’s application for a service certificate landed on a clerk’s desk...
Irish soldiers, surgeons, revolutionaries and pressmen—as well as at least one downright chancer—all...
By Charles Tyner At the time of the Civil War, the United States was a growing power but not yet a...
By Antóin O’Callaghan On the north-western hills overlooking Cork city stands St Vincent’s Church...
By Danny Ó Seachnasaigh The partial failure of the potato crop in 1845 heralded the beginning of...
Regulars
In the wake of the devastation wrought by Storm Éowyn I was reminded of a phrase often used by my...
In the wake of the devastation wrought by Storm Éowyn I was reminded of a phrase often used by my...
BY DONAL FALLON RORY GALLAGHER REMEMBERED A new statue to Rory Gallagher has been unveiled outside Belfast’s Ulster Hall, a fitting memorial to the...
By Lar Joye In this issue I will talk not about artefacts but about replicas. Most museum collections have gaps and omissions that reflect their own institutional history. In 2002, the design team 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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