Irish History Brief for April 2025

Books

A Man of Resolve: Richard Henry Brunton: Civil engineer at work in 19th Century Great Britain, Japan and Ireland
by Dr Geoff Goolnik.
Link
After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change
edited by Evelyn Conlon, and Rebecca Pelan. Link
Ancient Letters of the Irish Church: Volume I
by D. P. Curtin.
Link
Ancient Letters of the Irish Church: Volume II
Link
Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhran
by Fintan Vallely.
Link
Beyond the Pale and Highland Line: The Irish and Scottish Gaelic World
edited by Simon Egan. Link
Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland
by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc.
Link
Continuity and Change: Postwar Migration Between Ireland and Australia 1945-2024
edited by Patricia M. O'Connor, and Fidelma McCorry. Link
Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British
by Jonathan Trigg.
Link
Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972
by Forest Issac Jones.
Link
Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865
by Linden G. Bower, Michael Parrish, and Damian Shiels.
Link
Ireland and Britain in the Age of Bede: The Jennifer O'Reilly Memorial Lectures 2017-2024
edited by Mairin Maccarron, and Tom O'Reilly. Link
Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War
by Shane Lynn.
Link
Laois
by Cormac Moore.
Link
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland
by Elena Emma Sottilotta.
Link
Swift Blaze of Fire: The Life of Robert Hilliard: Olympian, Cleric, Brigadista
by Lin Clark.
Link
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts
edited by Patrick Little. Link
The Routledge Companion to Irish Art
edited by Fionna Barber, and Fintan Cullen. Link
The Townland Atlas of Ulster
by Andrew Kane.
Link

Articles

Immigrants on the Land: Irish Rural Settlement in Minnesota and New South Wales, 1830–1890
by Malcolm Campbell in New Hibernia Review. Link

The Boundary Commission Revisited: The Thatcher–FitzGerald Talks
by Stephen Collins in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link

Patrick McCartan: Revolutionary Ireland’s Envoy to the United States and Bolshevik Russia, 1917–1921
by Michael Doorley in New Hibernia Review. Link

Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1949–60: External Association Redux?
by David Erdos in Journal of Contemporary History. Link

‘Penniless Orientals of the Pedlar Type’: The Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth Migrant Rights, 1940s–1970s
by David Erdos in Contemporary European History. Link

The Boundary Commission: Why the Commission Failed to Produce Expected Gains
by Ted Hallett in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link

‘Charity Begins at Home’?: Humanitarianism, the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga Famine Campaign in 1920s Ireland
by Anna Lively in Contemporary European History. Link

William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration
by Scott Lucas in Notes and Queries. Link

Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War
by Eoin McLaughlin, Paul Sharp, Xanthi Tsoukli, and Vedel Christian in Business History. Link

The Irish Boundary Commission: A History
by Cormac Moore in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link

Visions of Ireland, North and South: An Historical Perspective
by Jane Ohlmeyer in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link

Complex solidarities: the public history of Irish and Native American allyship
by Ciaran O’Neill in Settler Colonial Studies. Link

Reviews

The universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England during the British civil wars
reviewed by Alex Beeton in Intellectual History Review. Link

British intelligence and the Fenians, 1855–1880
reviewed by Brian Griffin in Irish Studies Review. Link

Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry
reviewed by Caroline Langhorst in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Link

The Orange Order a global history
reviewed by Donald M. MacRaild in Immigrants & Minorities. Link

From the “Troubles” to Trumpism Ireland and America, 1960–2023
reviewed by Gregory Ronco in New Hibernia Review. Link

The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux Contexts, Relations, and Commodities
reviewed by Siobhan Talbott in International Journal of Maritime History. Link

Mere Bagatelles women’s diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810
reviewed by Jingxuan Yi in Irish Studies Review. Link

Yeats, revival, and the temporalities of Irish modernism
reviewed by Jianbing Zhou in Irish Studies Review. Link

Books

A Man of Resolve: Richard Henry Brunton: Civil engineer at work in 19th Century Great Britain, Japan and Ireland

After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change

Ancient Letters of the Irish Church: Volume I

Ancient Letters of the Irish Church: Volume II

Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhran

Beyond the Pale and Highland Line: The Irish and Scottish Gaelic World

Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland

Continuity and Change: Postwar Migration Between Ireland and Australia 1945-2024

Introduction

World migration theories

Context for migration flows

‘I was going to go somewhere’ Irish migrants in post-war Victoria, 1946–1971

In their own words Irish people in Perth reflect on their migration journey

Ireland and the Fairbridge Society Migration Scheme – 1960–69

‘Nine out of ten of the older ones were leaving’ Irish immigrants in post-war Melbourne

Generations An Irish-Adelaide family story

Context for migration flows 1980–2000

Fractured journeys Spotlight on the Irish in Melbourne

Context for migration flows 2000–2015

The Irish in Australia, 2000–2015

Leaving Australia

Conclusion

Epilogue

Coming full circle – a personal and reflective memoir

Death in Derry: Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British

Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865

Ireland and Britain in the Age of Bede: The Jennifer O'Reilly Memorial Lectures 2017-2024

Bede and Cassiodorus

Venerating the Cross around the year 800 in Anglo-Saxon England

The Representation of Gregory the Great in Irish Sources of the Pre-Viking Era

The Early Medieval Eye and Insular Art: The Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells, and the scholarship of Jennifer O’Reilly

Dynamic Theologies: The Ruthwell Cross from an Irish perspective

Bede and the Spiritual Senses

Pater Ecgberct of Rath Melsigi: the hero of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica?

Bede, the Scribe of Scripture: His impact upon Northumbrian publishing

Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War

Laois

Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland

Swift Blaze of Fire: The Life of Robert Hilliard: Olympian, Cleric, Brigadista

The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The role of a university: Trinity College Dublin, 1594–1634

Preserving the past: history, manuscripts and belonging, c.1600–41

Gender, violence and martyrology in Protestant Ireland, 1641–6

Lord Inchiquin and the Munster clergy, 1643–9

The devotional life of the second earl of Cork in Cromwellian Ireland

Bishops, banquets and buildings, 1660–1714

Accommodations with changing orders: the Church of Ireland, 1685–92

The Church of Ireland’s acquisition and use of silver, 1600–1714

Bishops as men of business and parliamentary managers in the Irish house of lords, 1613–89

Cathedral music in the Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The Routledge Companion to Irish Art

The Townland Atlas of Ulster

Articles

Immigrants on the Land: Irish Rural Settlement in Minnesota and New South Wales, 1830–1890

The Boundary Commission Revisited: The Thatcher–FitzGerald Talks

Patrick McCartan: Revolutionary Ireland’s Envoy to the United States and Bolshevik Russia, 1917–1921

Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1949–60: External Association Redux?

‘Penniless Orientals of the Pedlar Type’: The Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth Migrant Rights, 1940s–1970s

The Boundary Commission: Why the Commission Failed to Produce Expected Gains

‘Charity Begins at Home’?: Humanitarianism, the Irish Save the Children Fund and the Volga Famine Campaign in 1920s Ireland

William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration

Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War

The Irish Boundary Commission: A History

Visions of Ireland, North and South: An Historical Perspective

Complex solidarities: the public history of Irish and Native American allyship

Reviews

The universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England during the British civil wars

British intelligence and the Fenians, 1855–1880

Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry

The Orange Order a global history

From the “Troubles” to Trumpism Ireland and America, 1960–2023

The Irish in Eighteenth-century Bordeaux Contexts, Relations, and Commodities

Mere Bagatelles women’s diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810

Yeats, revival, and the temporalities of Irish modernism

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