In The Current Issue-april-may

REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
The life and times of Brendan O’Regan
John Dorney
Daniel O’Connell’s Lost Heart
Brenda Moore-McCann
ON THIS DAY
Aodhán Crealey

BITE-SIZED HISTORY:
By Donal Fallon

LETTERS:
Miss Jean Montgomery, Lady Superintendent of the Kitchen
Colonel Maurice Moore
Alan Reeve

PLATFORM:
Is there a problem with Irish archives?
By Maria Luddy

KINDRED LINES:
Tracing people on the land in the Tudor and Jaco bean plantations
By Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Kildare Street Club, 1–3 Kildare Street, Dublin
By Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:
Kilkenny Militia band uniform
By Eamonn O’Keeffe

IFI FILM EYE:
Michael Collins’s famous speech and the advent of the Republic of Ireland
By Saskia Vermeulen

LOCAL ARCHIVES:
Dublin City charters
By Linda Hickey

100 YEARS AGO:
Joe McGrath and the founding of the National Party
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

SEEN ON TV:
Face down: the disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer
By Sylvie Kleinman

MUSEUM EYE:
Book of Kells Experience, Trinity College, Dublin
By Donal Fallon

Bookworm:
By Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book:
Nolan, Remember ’48 (2 vols): YoungIreland and the rising and Young Irelanders beyond the rising; Morash,Young Ireland: a global afterlife
Reviewed By Peter Gray

Book Reviews:
Hayes, Ireland’s sea fisheries, 1400–1600: economics, environment and ecology
By Simon Egan
Gannon, Conflict, diaspora andempire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922
By Charles Townshend
Barry, Industry and policy in independent Ireland, 1922–1972
By Colm Keena
Murphy and Rogers, Sounds Irish, acts global
By Donal Fallon

Features

1500th ANNIVERSARY:
St Brigit—who was she?
By Edel Bhreathnach

FINANCE:
Revd John Reade and Ireland’sfirst savings banks
By Ray O’Connor

POLITICS: 
‘Remember your soul and your Liberty’—the 1836 Longford by-election
By Stephen Collins

IRISH ABROAD:
Teresa (Annie) McGrath—forgotten Irish heroine of the battle of Fort Gulistan, India,1897
By Peter W. Halligan

SPORTS:
Women and early Irish lawn tennis
By John O’Brien

CIVIL WAR:
‘Foully butchered in a manner so treacherous’
By Owen O’Shea

SECOND GLANCE:
‘Neither King nor Kaiser’—the story of a slogan (and a photograph)
By Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

INTERNATIONAL:
Máirín Mitchell and the Spanish Civil War
By Martin Tyrrell

MILITARY:
Accidental Nazis? The Irishmen who joined the Waffen-SS
By John Mulqueen

REPUTATIONS:
Owen Sheehy Skeffington and the birth of liberal Ireland
By Brian Girvin