Irish History Brief for March 2025

Books

• 100 Years of Empowering Women: Celebrating the Centenary of the Irish Federation of University Women

  by Fiona Ahern.
  Link
  

• Are You Dancing?: Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland

  by Rebecca S. Miller.
  Link
  

• Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles: Independence and Interdependence, c. 1921-1973

  by Richard Carr.
  Link
  

• Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours

  by Alison O'Byrne.
  edited by James Watt. Link
  

• Elie Bouhereau: the collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee

  edited by Amy Boylan, and Janee Allsman. Link
  

• Killester: From medieval manor to garden suburb

  by Joseph Brady, and Ruth McManus.
  Link
  

• Mary MacSwiney

  by Leeann Lane.
  Link
  

• One Man’s Ireland: Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Maverick Republican

  by Owen O'Shea.
  Link
  

• People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell

  edited by Michelle Comber, and Kieran O'Conor. Link
  

  • Capstones and potential capstones at the Carrowmore megalithic complex

    by Stefan Bergh, and Robert Hensey in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • Going to sea in a lunula

    by Mary Cahill in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • From prehistory to medieval: living among the ancestors in the Burren, Co. Clare

    by Michelle Comber, and Noel McCarthy in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • Evidence for the heroic narratives as seen in Machaire Connacht

    by Daniel Curley in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • An exploration of passage tomb alignment, related kerbstone art and cycles of monumental construction at Brú na Bóinne

    by Joseph Fenwick in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • Carleton Jones Identity in Early Bronze Age western Ireland – a study of pottery and landscape

    by Carleton Jones in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • A contribution to the debate concerning archaeology and early vernacular literature

    by Conor Newman in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • The Mac Diarmada inauguration site at Croghan (Cruachán), County Roscommon

    by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • Ogham stones, souterrains and ancestral memory in Early Medieval Ireland

    by William O’Brien in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

  • Lady Dorothy Lowry-Corry (1885–1967)

    by Kieran O’Conor in People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell. Link
    

• Rot: A History of the Irish Famine

  by Padraic X. Scanlan.
  

• The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks: 68

  edited by Thomas M. Truxes, and John Shovlin. Link
  

• The Big Fight : When Ali Conquered Ireland

  by Dave Hannigan.
  Link
  

• The Celts: A Modern History

  by Ian Stewart.
  Link
  

• The Making of Irish Geology 1740–1940

  by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson.
  Link
  

• The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the Ira's Secret American Army

  by Ali Watkins.
  Link
  

Articles

• “Up with the Brave”: Gender, Transgression and Judges’ Use of Catholic Convents in England and Ireland, 1930–1959

  by Máiréad Enright in Law and History Review. Link

• “An Ireland of Brave, Manly Boys, an Ireland of Pure, Modest Girls”: The Education System and the Regulation of Sexuality in Ireland, 1922–1968

  by Judith Harford, and Tom O’Donoghue in History of Education. Link

• Finding home in Irish and German migrant letters: A comparative analysis

  by Félix Krawatzek, and Emma Moreton in Social Science History. Link

• Tests of Manhood: Uncovering the History and Popularity of Stone Lifting in Ireland

  by David Nolan, and Conor Heffernan in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

Reviews

• Aiding Ireland The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy.

  reviewed by Katherine Badertscher in The American Historical Review. Link
  

• The apocalypse in Ireland. Prophecy and politics in the 1820s.

  reviewed by Shaun Blanchard in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

• Imagining Ireland’s Future, 1870–1914 Home Rule, Utopia, Dystopia

  reviewed by Katherine Haldane Grenier in Victorian Studies. Link
  

• Exhibiting Irishness empire, race, and nation, c.1850–1970

  reviewed by Donald M. MacRaild in Immigrants & Minorities. Link
  

• The battle to control female fertility in modern Ireland

  reviewed by Kevin Rafter in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

• Ireland’s Difficulty, American Opportunity
  Work reviewed: Aiding Ireland The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy

  reviewed by David Sim in Diplomatic History. Link
  

• The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume I Endings and New Beginnings, 1530-1640

  reviewed by Peter Stiffell in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

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