Irish History Brief for February 2025

Books

• Clontarf: An Illustrated History

  by Joe Curtis.
  Link
  

• Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845–1919

  by Lindsay Janssen.
  Link
  

• The Sorrow and the Loss: The Tragic Shadow Cast by the Troubles on the Lives of Women

  by Martin Dillon.
  Link
  

• Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District

  by Caroline West.
  Link
  

Articles

• Ecologies of Forgetting: Climate Change and the Archaeological Impulse in Seamus Heaney's Bog Poetry

  by Ian David Clark in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland

  by Mary Curtin, Caroline Murphy, Una Woods, and Christine Cross in Rural History. Link

• The Evolution of the Irish 12.5 Percent Corporate Tax Rate: An Oral History

  by Elaine Marie Doyle, Brendan McCarthy, Penelope Tuck, and Frank Barry in Enterprise & Society. Link

• Translating Policy into Practice: The Role of Early Irish-Language Textbooks

  by Claire Dunne in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Mairin Mitchell and the Politics of the "London Irish" in the 1930s

  by José Francisco Fernández, and Germán Asensio Peral in Éire-Ireland. Link

• A Travelling Circus, County Clare (c. 1912–13) by Percy Francis Gethin (review)

  by Angela Griffith in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Ogam, cryptography and healing charms in the nineteenth century: observations on ‘The Minchin Manuscript’

  by Deborah Hayden, and David Stifter in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link

• The West Limerick Gaeltacht in the Early Twentieth Century: Irish Language Shift and Schooling

  by Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Introduction: 120 Years of the Irish-Language Summer Colleges

  by Máire McCafferty, and Ríona Nic Congáil in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland’s peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836–1845

  by Eoin McLaughlin, and Rowena Pecchenino in Business History. Link

• "A Flash Gun for Making Puffs of Smoke": Eugene Lambert, Puppetry, and Ireland's New Television Service

  by Martin G. Molony in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Indian Law Students in Dublin, 1913–16: Solidarity and Encounter Between Indian and Irish Advanced Nationalists

  by Conor Mulvagh in Studies in History. Link

• Perspectives on the Irish Language in Education in the Early- to Mid-Twentieth Century

  by Noel Ó Murchadha in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Litríocht na gColáistí Samhraidh/Irish College Literature

  by Ríona Nic Congáil in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The Bilingual Programme of Instruction for Irish-Speaking Districts, 1906–1922

  by Teresa O'Doherty, and Tom O'Donoghue in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Dorothy Godfrey's Civil War: American Activism in the Transatlantic Irish Republican Movement, 1923–32

  by Timothy M. O'Neil in Éire-Ireland. Link

• "Crack That Claw": Empire Day and the Radical Player Queen of 1919

  by Elizabeth Brewer Redwine in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The National Coalition and the Cessation of Compulsory Irish for the Leaving Certificate in 1973

  by Hugh Rowland in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Strabane's "Dissident" Socialist Republican Identity: An Alternative Vision Amidst the Dominance of Sinn Féin

  by Sebastian Vandermeersch in New Hibernia Review. Link

Reviews

• The Irish Jacobite army

  reviewed by Eoin Collins in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

• The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism Vol. 2 Uncertainty and Change, 1641–1745.

  reviewed by Victor Houliston in Church History. Link
  

• Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination

  reviewed by Christopher McGowan in MFS Modern Fiction Studies. Link
  

• Raw Generals and Green Soldiers Catholic Armies in Ireland 1641-43

  reviewed by Elaine Murphy in Church History. Link
  

• The Sash on the Mersey The Orange Order in Liverpool

  reviewed by Daniel Warner in Urban History. Link
  

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