In the current issue
History Ireland NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2026
- The North’s loyalism problem
- Gaelic Ireland and the Black Death
- The ‘Garden of the Bees’— Francis Joseph Bigger (1863– 1926) and the Ardrigh circle
- ‘Prison life makes one see people and things as they are’—Oscar Wilde and penal reform
- Bloody Sunday 1920—who was compensated?
- The 1926 Gaeltacht Commission report
- Pieter Menten—local memories of a war criminal
By David Prendergast Fifty years ago, in November 1976, Pieter Menten, a 77-year-old Dutch art...
By John Walsh This year marks the centenary of the publication of the report of the Gaeltacht...
By John McGee The 106th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, is approaching and most...
By Angus Mitchell Two of the great gathering-houses of Irish cultural nationalism were Lady...
By Cormac Behan In May 1898, as the Prisons Act was being debated in parliament, Oscar Wilde wrote...
By Alan Parkinson Much has been written about the life of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–91). There...
By Robert Delaney The Fenian and journalist Frederick Allan claimed that ‘the Invincibles caused...
By C.J. Woods Two hundred years ago a ship crossed the Atlantic bound for Europe with copies of a...
By Tadg Farrell In 1360 the English of Ireland sent a petition to King Edward III of England begging...
Regulars
With the re-emergence of the Drumcree impasse it is timely, but also coincidental, that Fearghal Mac...
With the re-emergence of the Drumcree impasse it is timely, but also coincidental, that Fearghal Mac...
BY DONAL FALLON SPANISH CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED A new memorial in Inchicore was unveiled in September, commemorating seven local men who fought with the...
By Lar Joye This uniform was reportedly worn by Henry Joy McCracken as leader of the United Irishmen at the Battle of Antrim in 1798. Henry came from two of the most respectable Presbyterian families...
By Brian Casey On 18 January 1971, a bomb exploded in the O’Connell tower in Glasnevin Cemetery. O’Connell’s remains had been placed there in 1869, with the tower built to honour the life and legacy...
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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