Irish History Brief for January 2025
Books
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A Hillfort Through Time: Excavations at Rathgall, County Wicklow
by Barry Raftery, and Katharina Becker.
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America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925
edited by Fionnuala Walsh. Link
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Americanisation as a framework for Irish historical studies
by Fionnuala Walsh in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Reflections on the meaning of America in Irish emigrant material culture, 1845–1925
by Bernadette Whelan in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Marketing the transatlantic emigrant crossing: American shipping firms' influence on commercial propaganda on the Irish market
by Kevin Hora in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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The spiritual empire strikes back: Americanisation and religion in Ireland, 1841–1925
by Sarah Roddy in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Americanisation in Irish politics, c. 1850 to 1925
by Niall Whelehan in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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The literary Americanisation of Ireland 1841–1925
by Ciaran O'Neill in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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American popular visual culture and Ireland, 1840s to 1920s
by Kevin Rockett in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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'American notes': Re-thinking Irish cultural paradigms
by Harry White in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Representations of the returned Yank in the emigration to America questionnaire, 1955
by Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Afterword: David Fitzpatrick, influencer
by Roy Foster in America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841–1925. Link
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Catholics and the law in Restoration Ireland
by Paul Smith.
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Filthy Queens: A History of Beer in Ireland
by Christina Wade.
Link
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Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left
edited by Oisín Gilmore, and David Landy. Link
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Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History
by Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin, and Neha Doshi.
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Nine Years War-1593 to 1603 Volume 1: The Ascendancy of Irish Arms and the Road to Yellow Ford, 1593-1598
by James O'Neil.
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Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State
by Karl O'Hanlon.
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The Orange Order: A Global History
by Patrick Coleman.
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Articles
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Physical education and games in Ireland’s reformatory and industrial schools, 1858–1922
by Conor Curran in Sport in History. Link -
‘“Love, liberty, and loyalty”: unearthing the Defenders’ popular project for the ‘Republic of the United States of France and Ireland’ (1795–6)
by Mathieu Ferradou in History of European Ideas. Link -
‘Our Cattle Problem’: Fianna Fáil, the Irish Cattle Trade and the Economic War, 1932–1938
by Michael Loughman in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
English, French, or Frenchy? Adaptation, The Irish Lion, and The Corsican Brothers
by Sarah Meer in Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Link -
The exclusion of the Dáil courts and the Privy Council appeal from the creation of the courts of the Irish Free State, 1922–1924
by Thomas Mohr in The Journal of Legal History. Link -
Conflict and Urban Mobility: Challenges and Responses to Free Movement in Belfast during the Troubles
by Ashley M. Morin in Journal of Modern European History. Link -
Female gothics and the traumatic legacy of Ireland’s revolutionary years: Rosamond Jacob’s The Troubled House and Dorothy Macardle’s The Uninvited
by Karen Steele in Irish Studies Review. Link -
Transnational Knowledge Circulation and the Closing of Minds to Progressive Education Influences on Schooling in the First Decade of Independence in Ireland
by Thomas Walsh, and Tom O’Donoghue in History of Education Quarterly. Link
Reviews
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Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625.
reviewed by Alan Ford in Church History. Link
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A New Irish Eighteenth Century
reviewed by Michael Griffin in Eighteenth-Century Life. Link
Work reviewed: Irish Literature in Transition, 1700–1780 Volume 1
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Patriotism is a Catholic Virtue Irish-American Catholics and the Church in the Era of the Great War, 1900–1918.
reviewed by Patrick J. Hayes in Church History. Link
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Foreign Tongues Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland
reviewed by Áine Hyland in Irish Labour History Society. Link
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Becoming Irish American The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
reviewed by Gráinne Mcevoy in American Catholic Studies. Link
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The Irish and the Imagination of Race White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century
reviewed by Mary L. Mullen in Victorian Studies. Link
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The Labour Court 1946 to 2021. A History of Seventy-Five Years
reviewed by Brian Sheehan in Irish Labour History Society. Link
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