Irish History Brief for August 2025

Books

• Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures

  edited by Helen Fulton, and Georgia Henley. Link
  

• Landscapes of Kinships in Early Medieval Ireland Ad 400-1150

  by Patrick Gleeson.
  Link
  

• Letters from an Old Orangeman

  Link
  

• Medieval Dublin XX: Volume 20

  edited by Seán Duffy. Link
  

Articles

• John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript

  by David Armitage in The Historical Journal. Link

• Ireland's Soft Diplomacy at U.S. World's Fairs: Stained Glass on Display

  by Paul Donnelly in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Montaging a Nation: The Reimann School and Studios' Photomontages for the Irish Pavilion and Displays at the New York World's Fair, 1939–40

  by Orla Fitzpatrick in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Records and Record-keeping in the Irish Foreign Service, 1919–36

  by Benjamin Hazard in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Link

• Irish Independent History: From Parnell to Larkin

  by John Horgan in New Hibernia Review. Link

• The Famine That Wasn't? Ireland, 1799–1801

  by Liam Kennedy, and Peter M. Solar in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• Ireland in Transition: Visual Culture, Technology, and Modernity in the Free State

  by Róisín Kennedy, and Elaine Sisson in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Michael Scott's Trade Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939

  by Róisín Kennedy in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Losing the Grip: The Royal Irish Constabulary and Irish Law Enforcement, 1918–1919

  by W. J. Lowe in New Hibernia Review. Link

• The Art of Window Display: Irish Influences and Influencers during the Years of the Irish Free State

  by Kerry Meakin in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Competing Irishness: The Dublin Horse Show and the Tailteann Games

  by Sherra Murphy in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Back to the Future: Mainie Jellett, Modernism, and Reconfiguring Ireland's Artistic Identity

  by Grace O'Sullivan in Éire-Ireland. Link

• John Pentland Mahaffy and Irish Secondary Education

  by Brendan A. Rapple in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Dressing the Part: Fancy Dress, Social Formation, and the Dublin Cinema Balls of the 1920s

  by Elaine Sisson in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The Fenian Sisterhood, Ladies Land Leaguers and the Women’s Suffrage Question: The Representation of Women in the Victorian Irish Press

  by Emily Smith in The Historian. Link

• Cork City's Early Modernist Industrial Buildings: Tractors, Boots, and Vernacular Modernism

  by Tom Spalding in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Parliamentary Activism? Northern Irish Civil Rights and the Campaign for Democracy in Ulster

  by Patrick Thompson in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Link

• A Nineteenth-Century Miscarriage of Justice? The Letterfrack Murders, 1881–1882

  by Colm Wallace in New Hibernia Review. Link

Reviews

• Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Garas of Coolavin

  reviewed by Oliver Creighton in Medieval Archaeology. Link
  

• Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880–1918

  reviewed by Marnie Hay in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Link
  

• The Celts a Modern History

  reviewed by Colin Kidd in Intellectual History Review. Link
  

• Dangerous Ambition The Making of Éamon de Valera

  reviewed by Kevin Matthews in New Hibernia Review. Link
  

• Public History in Ireland Difficult Histories

  reviewed by Caitlin White in The Public Historian. Link
  

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