In The Current Issue

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The Military History Society of Ireland after 75 years
Lar Joye
Arthur Leared (1822–79) commemorated
Brian Smyth
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY:
By Donal Fallon

LETTERS:
The killing of Michael Caudy, 16 May 1923
George Petrie
Tone’s death
Demos’s bread
Pocket battleship?

PLATFORM:
Durrow High Cross and the ongoing saga of public access
By Michael Byrne

KINDRED LINES:
Ordnance Survey Memoirs
By Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Newbridge House, Donabate, Fingal
By Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:
Ireland’s first (partly wooden) jet plane
By Lar Joye

IFI FILM EYE:
Christmas traditions alive today
By Anna Rose Garvey

LOCAL ARCHIVES:
The papers of Dr John F. Keenan
By Martin Morris

100 YEARS AGO:
Merger of Irish railways into the Great Southern Railway Company
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

SEEN ON TV:
The cable that changed the world
By Brian Trench

FILM WATCH:
Horizon: an American Saga, Chapter 1
By David Murphy

WHAT’S ON STAGE:
Agreement
Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:
An Túr Gloine: Artists and the Collective, National Gallery of Ireland
By Donal Fallon

Bookworm:
By Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book:
Analecta Hibernica No. 53. Special issue—The fire of 1922
By Catriona Crowe

Book Reviews:
Ó Cionnaith, The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
Patrick J. Duffy
Horner, Mapping south Kerry: 450 years of a changing landscape
By Thomas O’Loughlin
O’Donoghue and Purcell (eds), John Redmond and Irish parliamentary traditions
By Dermot Meleady
Jackson, United kingdoms: multinational union states in Europe and beyond, 1800–1925
By Brian Girvin

Features

INVASION:
The arrival of King Henry II in Waterford
Damien McLellan

SYMBOL OF SOVEREIGNTY:
Donnchad mac Briain, Henry II and the crown of Ireland
By Jesse Harrington

CHIEFS’ PRIZE:
Three women of the O’Byrnes—perspectives on Gaelic political marriage in the sixteenth century
Cora Crampton

CENTENARY:
The convening of the Irish Boundary Commission
By Cormac Moore

HUMOUR:
Emmet’s unwritten epitaph—a recurring theme in Dublin Opinion cartoons
By Felix Larkin

IRISH ABROAD:
Belfast woman Elizabeth Shaw’s Stasi file
By Fergal Lenehan

ESPIONAGE:
MI6’s spies in Garda intelligence—new evidence
By David Burke

TROUBLES:
The 1974 pub bombings and the Irish in Birmingham
By Michael Flavin