In the current issue
History Ireland MAY / JUNE 2025
- Laurence O’Toole—Normandy’s Irish Saint
- Infant baptism and infant death
- Aodh de Blácam (1891–1951)
- Irish participation in the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and 1925
- Nano Aiken, internment and the end of the Irish revolution in the North, 1923–4
- Kilmainham Gaol as a panopticon
- St Malachy—prophet of Irish independence?
By Pat Dargan During the Second World War the Irish government adopted a policy of neutrality...
By Tarlach de Blácam Aodh de Blácam (Harold Saunders Blackham), journalist, essayist, poet and...
By Brian Trench In early 1925 a public analysis laboratory opened in Dawson Street, Dublin, in the...
By Mark Stocker A long-overlooked aspect of the 1928 Irish Free State coinage was how the new...
By Billy Shortall Although invited, the Irish Free State refused to participate in the British...
By Robin Fuller One hundred years ago it was quite common for Irish people to believe that they were...
By Eoin Magennis and Lesa Ní Mhunghaile Nano Aiken’s 1934 application for a military service pension...
By Liam Kennedy Generations of Irish Catholic parents rushed to have their infants baptised as soon...
By Sophie McGurk Kilmainham Gaol exists in the forefront of Ireland’s mind as the site of execution...
By Jesse Harrington This month (11 May 2025) will see the international public commemoration of the...
Regulars
As the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates shift, Ireland faces an uncertain future. The delicate...
As the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates shift, Ireland faces an uncertain future. The delicate...
BY DONAL FALLON MNÁ NA hATHBHEOCHANA Good news from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), where a new exhibition, Mná na hAthbheochana (‘Women...
By Colum Kenny This fine watercolour of Sandycove Point, Co. Dublin, from the Dún Laoghaire side recently came to light at Adams Auctioneers. It includes ‘Joyce’s Tower’, as that structure is known...
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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