In the current issue
History Ireland SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2024
- Archives, Access and Human Rights
- If it quacks like a duck …
- The death of Theobald Wolfe Tone—suicide or murder?
- Shrinking money—re discovery of rare ten pence coins
- Irish Defence Forces established
- Invasion: The Normans
- George Petrie—a ‘type’ of genius
- ‘A fist fight with the feet’— Ireland’s forgotten folk wrestling traditions
By James Sharkey It was 5 April 1974, my 29th birthday. I had just arrived in Moscow with...
By Lance Pettitt The part that Irishmen have played in British military conflicts down the years is...
By Pat Poland In the early hours of the morning of 1 September 1939, the German pocket-battleship...
By Emma Quinn A March 1931 article in the Irish Examiner announced that a ‘solemn decree protesting...
By Arthur Matthews Kevin O’Higgins, the Free State minister for justice and vice-president of the...
By Ruadhán MacFadden Wrestling was once a common feature of life and society in Ireland. Throughout...
Regulars
My ‘first’ Olympic Games were in 1972—no, not as a competitor, but as a schoolboy spectator on...
My ‘first’ Olympic Games were in 1972—no, not as a competitor, but as a schoolboy spectator on...
BY DONAL FALLON NO FLUNKEYISM HERE! In 1900 Queen Victoria arrived in Dublin to considerable fanfare, as the Second Boer War rumbled on. Donal P. McCracken, a...
By Edmond Barrett In 1993 the new, small ten pence coin was introduced to replace the 1971 design. Time, and with it inflation, had rendered the old design increasingly expensive in relation to its...
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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