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History Ireland JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2025
- James Hastie—the Cork native who helped end the Madagascar slave-trade
- Cumann na mBan in the Glens of Antrim 1920–4
- The Foundling Hospital, Dublin
- Art O’Brien and the deportation of Irish republicans from Britain to Dublin in 1923
- Lillie Dillon—‘Ireland’s airwoman No. 1’
- Vessels of history—chalices as sacred objects and story- makers
- What were the British saying about Ireland during the early years of the Troubles?
By John Gibney In November 1971 Harold Wilson, the former (and future) British prime minister whose...
By Kyle McCreanor A tale of false passports, international espionage and grandiose plots in Jazz Age...
By Tom Dillon Described as ‘Ireland’s airwoman No.1’, Lillie Dillon from Listowel, Co. Kerry, was a...
By Mary MacDiarmada Art O’Brien was born in London in 1872. His father was from Cork city and his...
By Margaret Ward Lloyd George, speaking in the House of Commons debate on the Treaty on 14 December...
By Peter Murray Ernest Kavanagh’s Irish Worker cartoon (below) depicts three figures—the lord mayor...
By David Mould In July 1817 the Irish-born James Hastie, a 30-year-old East India Company sergeant...
By Mark B. Roe The records of the British and old Irish parliaments contain detailed evidence of one...
By Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton and Richard Keyes McDonnell On 2 July 2021 a silver-gilt...
Regulars
In one of our podcasts analysing the 2020 general election (link below), historian Brian Hanley was...
In one of our podcasts analysing the 2020 general election (link below), historian Brian Hanley was...
BY DONAL FALLON THE IRISH COURTS PODCAST Marking the centenary of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924, a new podcast series explores landmark legal cases in Irish...
By Lar Joye During the Emergency (1939–45) the Irish Army increased in size to 38,000 in 1942, with an additional 103,530 volunteers in the Local Defence Forces (LDF). Based on these numbers, the...
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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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