In the current issue
History Ireland JULY / AUGUST 2026
- Know-Nothingism in America, then and now
- Gaelic Wexford 1400–1600: culture, landscape, settlement
- Thomas Paine, Ireland and the Irish ghost
- Leon Uris’s Trinity
- Colm O Lochlainn—bibliophile and reluctant revolutionary
- Declaring independence— America 1776, Ireland 1919
- The mysterious death of Prince Frederick
By Mark Holan American author Leon Uris released his eighth novel, Trinity, shortly before St...
By Garry Ahern In 1949 the Benedictine priory at Glenstal, Co. Limerick, was drawn, albeit...
By Dermot McGuinne It is important to remind ourselves that for a period during the 1930s there...
Discoveries surrounding the history of St Joseph’s Industrial School, Ballinasloe, and hopes for a...
By Daniel Mulhall If you visit Thomas Jefferson’s magnificent home at Monticello near...
By Fergus Whelan Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, in 1737. He had worked as a staymaker...
By Victoria Anne Pearson In January 1776, during the American War of Independence, Cork-born Stephen...
Did the premature death of George III’s father lead to the American Declaration of Independence in...
Regulars
While not a ‘special issue’ as such, this edition has a definite ‘USA 250’ flavour. For starters, we...
While not a ‘special issue’ as such, this edition has a definite ‘USA 250’ flavour. For starters, we...
BY DONAL FALLON 1916 ACTION MAP Marking the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Military Archives have released a new interactive map that shows where...
By Hugh Stephenson This Dublin Castle Short Land Pattern musket, marked to the 9th Regiment of Foot, was most likely used—and ultimately captured—at the Battle of Saratoga 249 years ago. This battle...
By Brian Casey The Penal Laws placed restrictions on the burial of Catholics and Dissenters in Ireland and they could only be buried in graveyards attached to an Anglican church, being charged extra...
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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