Irish History Brief for June 2025

Books

• Continuity and Change in the Irish Culinary History and Culture, 1922-1973

  by Marzena Keating.
  Link
  

• Elizabeth Smith in Dublin: A Daily Record of Dublin Life Immediately After the Great Famine

  by Elizabeth Smith.
  edited by Andrew Tod.

• Fieldwork: Essays on the Cultural History of Music in Ireland

  by Professor Harry White.
  Link
  

• Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

  edited by Kevin Kenny, and Maddelena Marinari. Link
  

• The Irish National Stud, 1900-2025: Horses, Politics and Elitism

  by Declan Monaghan.
  Link
  

Articles

• What’s Old Is New Again: Willow Coffins, Tradition, and Revival in Ireland Today

  by Ray Cashman in New Hibernia Review. Link

• ‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45

  by Susie Deedigan in Women's History Review. Link

• Castle Rackrent and the Beginning of the Long Irish Revolution

  by Stephen John Dilks in New Hibernia Review. Link

• The US Press and the American Commission on Irish Independence, 1919

  by Mark Holan in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Positively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA): HIV and AIDS Activism and the Irish Diaspora in London, ca. 1989–1996

  by Laura Kelly in Journal of the History of Sexuality. Link

• Agents of national memory revisited: Women writing prison in the Irish Civil War

  by James Little in Memory Studies. Link

• Jewish Cork: Memoir of a Vanished World

  by Louis Marcus in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Quiet Luxury: Viscountess Doneraile’s Shopping as Elite Female Identity-Formation in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

  by Maeve O’Riordan in Cultural and Social History. Link

• Remembering Mount Melleray Inside Out

  by Kieran Quinlan in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Electricity to Rural No. 1 – The Beginning of Ireland's Quiet Revolution

  by Martin Quinn in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• The Open, and: Artisans, and: McLaughlin & Sons LTD (1913–2024), and: The Lead Thefts, and: The Christmas Party

  by Stephen Sexton in New Hibernia Review. Link

• From Broken Glass to Stained Paper: A Family and a Business in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

  by Paul Star in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• The more, the merrier: Irish (and Scottish) bishops in fourteenth-century collective indulgences from Avignon

  by David Thornton in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link

• An Irish soldier perceives the stars: Philip O’Sullivan Beare’s exegetic cosmology, c. 1626–30

  by Kevin Gerard Tracey in Science in Context. Link

• Irish Identity and Coloniality: Reflections on Ena Dargan’s “Irish Self” in the Andes

  by Maxwell Woods in New Hibernia Review. Link

• “Ingredients for Cooperation”: Irish Tourism in North–South Relations, 1924–1998

  by Eric G. E. Zuelow in New Hibernia Review. Link

Reviews

• The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume III Relief, Revolution, and Revival, 1746-1829

  reviewed by Sarah Barthélemy in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

• The Irish Revolution A Global History

  reviewed by Francis M. Carroll in New Hibernia Review. Link
  

• The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, IV Building identity, 1830–1913

  reviewed by Eilish Gregory in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

• The Oxford history of British and Irish Catholicism, II Uncertainty and change, 1641–1745

  reviewed by Eilish Gregory in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

• Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830

  reviewed by Frank Salmon in Architectural History. Link
  

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