REGULARS
HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Archives, Access and Human Rights
Catriona Crowe
Saving Belfast’s Assembly Rooms
John Gray
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey
BITE-SIZED HISTORY:
By Donal Fallon
LETTERS:
If it quacks like a duck …
Cáin Adomnáin today
The Irish in Britain
Was Mary Shinkwin Ievers the ‘Miss Ivors’ of Joyce’s ‘The Dead’?
PLATFORM:
The death of Theobald Wolfe Tone—suicide or murder?
By Paddy Cullivan
KINDRED LINES:
Valuation Office Cancelled Books
By Fiona Fitzsimons
GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Costello Mortuary Chapel, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
By Damian Murphy
ARTEFACTS:
Shrinking money—re discovery of rare ten pence coins
By Edmond Barrett
IFI FILM EYE:
Women in Focus—an archive toolkit
By Anna Rose Garvey
LOCAL ARCHIVES:
The John Ivory Endowed School, New Ross
By Grainne Doran
100 YEARS AGO:
Irish Defence Forces established
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr
Reviews
SEEN ON TV:
Invasion: The Normans
By Sylvie Kleinman
MUSEUM EYE:
Iconic Costumes of the Irish Silver Screen, Museum of Style Icons, Newbridge Silverware Visitor Centre
By Donal Fallon
Bookworm:
By Daragh Fitzgerald
The Big Book:
Murtagh and Murtagh, The Irish Jacobite army
By David Murphy
Book Reviews:
Mannion, Anglicizing Tudor Connacht: the expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many
By Simon Egan
Farrell, So once was I: forgotten tales from Glasnevin Cemetery
By John Gibney
Hall and Magennis, Armagh: the Irish revolution, 1912–23
By Patrick Mulroe
Foster, Ireland out of England and other inconveniences
By Ian d’Alton
Features
SEXUALITY:
Carnal relations and church courts in Tudor Ireland
By Henry A. Jefferies
PRINTING:
George Petrie—a ‘type’ of genius
By Dermot McGuinne
MYSTERY
A murder on the G.A. Thompson? Thomas Francis Meagher and the Montana Territory, 1865–7
By Ruairí Nolan
SPORT:
‘A fist fight with the feet’— Ireland’s forgotten folk wrestling traditions
By Ruadhán MacFadden
CIVIL WAR:
Death and retribution
By Arthur Matthews
LEGAL HISTORY PRIZE:
The sovereignty of silence—the Carrigan Report and the rise and fall of professional womanhood in Ireland
By Emma Quinn
NAVAL:
When Cork’s lord mayor incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany
By Pat Poland
FILM:
An Ulsterman’s Arnhem: Theirs is the Glory (1946)
By Lance Pettitt
ANNIVERSARY:
Our man in Moscow
By James Sharkey