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REGULARS

From the Editor

HISTORY IN THE NEWS:
Remembering the Andersonville Irish in Georgia
Damian Shiels
Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909)
Brian Smyth
ON THIS DAY

BITE-SIZED HISTORY:
By Donal Fallon

LETTERS:
Reconciliation and the past
Palatine camp
Military Service Pensions Collection
John (not Jack) B. Yeats

PLATFORM:
Wolfe Tone today
By Jim Smyth

KINDRED LINES:
Parish vestry records
By Fiona Fitzsimons

GEMS OF ARCHITECTURE:
Curvilinear Range, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin
By Damian Murphy

ARTEFACTS:
Constance Bushe and mackerelsalting in West Cork
By Fintan Lane

IFI FILM EYE:
Ireland’s first suburban shopping centre
By Saskia Vermeulen

LOCAL ARCHIVES:
Wicklow grand juries
By Catherine Wright

100 YEARS AGO:
Ernie O’Malley is transferred to St Bricin’s military hospital
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr

Reviews

SEEN ON TV:
The Records Show
By Sylvie Kleinman

FILM WATCH:
Napoleon
By David Murphy

MUSEUM EYE:
This is the Modern World (1977–1982), Galway City Museum
By Donal Fallon

Bookworm:
By Daragh Fitzgerald

The Big Book:
Quinn, No foreign game: association football and the making of Irish identities
Reviewed By Paul Rouse

Book Reviews:
Bew, Ancestral voices in Irish politics: judging Dillon and Parnell
By Eoin Dillon
Callinan, Farrell and Tormey (eds), Vying for victory: the 1923 general election in the Irish Free State
By Brian Girvin
McAuliffe and Wheelock (eds), The diaries of Kathleen Lynn: a life revealed through personal writing
By Sylvie Kleinman
O’Rawe, Stakeknife’s dirty war
By Kevin Kiely

Features

PRINTING:
Robert Boyle’s irish-character printing type
By Dermot McGuinne

TRAVEL:
Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s Grand Tour of the North American frontier, 1789–90
By Ruairí Nolan

PLANNING:
Queenstown—the Victorian ‘new town’ on Killiney Hill that never happened
By John Martin

GEOMETRY:
Sublime equations—Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid
By Clare Moriarty

MILITARY:
The ‘Boer Colonel’—Maurice Moore (1854–1939): military hero or dissident?
By Madeline O’Neill

SECOND GLANCE:
Dublin Culture in the Palace
By Tim Carey

FASCISM:
O’Duffy’s ‘Green Division’— fact or fiction?
By Jack Traynor

DIASPORA:
Muintir na Tíre’s Fr John Hayes—‘Ireland’s rural apostle’ in America
By Barry Sheppard

ECONOMY:
‘This silly, nasty, dirty custom’—tobacco production in Ireland
By Seán Whitney