Irish History Brief for May 2025
Books
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Cath Idir an Pobal agus a Murder Machine: Gluaiseacht na Gaelscolaíochta, 1973-2023
by Kerron Ó Luain.
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Kincora: Britain’s Shame - Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover Up
by Chris Moore.
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Mind the Gap: Borders, Limits and Frontiers: Collected Essays and Cahir Healy’s Memoirs from a ‘Northern Ireland’ Prison Ship
by Cahir Healy.
edited by Aisling Reid, and Valentina Surace. Link
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Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations
by Professor Mark Thornton Burnett.
edited by Andrew Murphy. Link
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The Irish Boundary Commission: 'The Root of All Evil'
by Cormac Moore.
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The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History: Protestant Memory on the Border: 14
by Kenneth Funston, and Cillian McGrattan.
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Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution
by Catriona Kennedy.
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Articles
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The Year in Digital Humanities: 2023-4
in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
Paul of Bernried and the Anonymous Continental Recension of the Life of St. Íte
by Dorothy Africa in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
The 2023 Eolas Lecture: Ethics in Medieval Ireland and the Ethics of Medieval Irish Studies
by Elizabeth Boyle in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform
by Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century
by Jack Crangle in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
‘Our very existence is threatened’: co-operation and rationalisation in the Irish post-primary school sector, 1966–70
by Catriona Delaney in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
The Honor of Modernity: Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800), and Discourses of Honor in Enlightenment Ireland
by Jane Elizabeth Dougherty in Eighteenth-Century Life. Link -
The early Irish law tract Fidbretha ‘Tree-judgments’
by Charlene M. Eska in North American journal of Celtic studies. Link -
Short Reports: A Note on Dice Found on the Rock of Lough Key
by Thomas M Finan, and Thomas J Finan in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
St Patrick’s Purgatory: Theology and History in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
by Alan Ford in Studies in Church History. Link -
Exploring peasant and bourgeois identity: haggards, masers, sheep and spoons in later fifteenth-century County Dublin
by Jeremy Goldberg in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Clan na Gael and other Irish nationalist girl scouts during the era of the Irish Revolution, 1911‒23
by Marnie Hay in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
The selection of the English undertakers in the Ulster Plantation, 1609–10
by David Heffernan in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Archaeological Discoveries from Medieval County Wexford
by Stephen Mandal, and Denis Shine in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
‘As a pleasing task’. Medieval Irish texts in the pages of the Irish penny publications
by Ciaran McDonough in North American journal of Celtic studies. Link -
Transgressing the Written Page: W. B. Yeats’s Radio Scripts and Broadcasts
by Ilaria Natali in Irish University Review. Link -
Stewards and Stewardship in Late Medieval Thomond: A Study of the O'Rodan (Uí Rodáin) Lineage of Ballysheen and Ardmaclancy
by Robert O'Halloran in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link -
The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71
by Robert O'Sullivan in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
‘Súil chaérach eter dá rethe’. Desire, homosociality, and power in Longes mac nUislenn
by Samuel Puopolo in North American journal of Celtic studies. Link -
In the shape of two swans. Violence, species, and outsider status in Aided Derbforgaill and Aislinge Óenguso
by Roan M. Runge in North American journal of Celtic studies. Link -
A ‘Turk’ in eighteenth-century Dublin: the rise and fall of Doctor Achmet Borumborad
by Murat R. Şi̇vi̇loğlu in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Reviews
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The operations of the Irish House of Commons, 1613–48
reviewed by Robert Armstrong in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism Ireland and America 1960–2023
reviewed by Mary Burke in Irish University Review. Link
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The Last Bohemian Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema
reviewed by Ian Christie in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Link
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The Tilson case church and state in 1950s' Ireland
reviewed by Marie Coleman in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Dublin and the Great Irish Famine
reviewed by S. J. Connolly in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Brides of Christ Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
reviewed by Erin Crowley-Champoux in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
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Race in Irish Literature and Culture
reviewed by Eve Doran in Irish University Review. Link
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Lives and Afterlives The Hiberno-Latin Patrician Tradition, 650–1100
reviewed by Clare Downham in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
reviewed by Simon Egan in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
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Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry
reviewed by Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Labour History. Link
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The land war in Ireland famine, philanthropy and moonlighting
reviewed by Aidan Gilsenan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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David Marcus Editing Ireland
reviewed by Tim Groenland in Irish University Review. Link
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Edmund Sexten Pery the politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland
reviewed by Bob Harris in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Ireland 1970-2020
reviewed by Alexander Henry in Contemporary British History. Link
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Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny
reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Enduring Ruin Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution
reviewed by Alan McCarthy in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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The diaries of Kathleen Lynn a life revealed through personal writing
reviewed by Rachel Newell in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Brides of Christ women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland
reviewed by Alma O'Donnell in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Ireland and empire in the late nineteenth century
reviewed by Victoria Anne Pearson in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Irish Food History A Companion
reviewed by Margaret Robson in Irish University Review. Link
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Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400–1600 Economics, Environment, and Ecology
reviewed by John B. Roney in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland
reviewed by Paul Russell in North American journal of Celtic studies. Link
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Visualizing the Celtic Revival The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland
reviewed by Tom Walker in Irish University Review. Link