Irish History Brief for October 2025
Books
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Annals of Tyranny: Ireland, America and the British Empire 1760-89
by Michael JA Turner.
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940
by Gareth Roddy.
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BLOODY SUMMER: a new history of the 1798 rebellion
by JAMES QUINN.
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Canada and the Great Irish Famine
edited by William Jenkins. Link
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Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany
edited by Salvador Ryan. Link
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European Migrants in Eighteenth Century Ireland: The Great Palatine Migration of 1709 and its Aftermath
by Claire McCormick.
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From Crown to Harp: How the Anglo-Irish treaty was undone 1920-1949
by David McCullagh.
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Ireland: Mapping the Island
by Joseph Brady, and Paul Ferguson.
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Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice
by Molly-Claire Gillett.
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Irish Revolution: Diplomacy and reactions, 1919-1923
edited by Owen McGee, Dermot Keogh, and Mervyn O'Driscoll. Link
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Kilwaughter: The Unknown Castle
by Jacqueline Agnew.
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Making Ireland Modern: The Transformation of Society and Culture
by Enda Delaney.
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Medieval Dublin: An Illustrated History
by Pat Dargan.
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Parnell's Other Island: Charles Stewart Parnell's Life & Times in Late Victorian Britain
by Alan Parkinson.
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Solidarity and Pressure: The Story of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
by Connal Parr.
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Ten Thousand Years Deep: The Story of Ireland's Peatlands
by Carsten Krieger.
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The Art Isles: A 15,000-Year Story of Art in Britain and Ireland
by Charlotte Mullins.
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The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922: Business as Usual
by Antonia Hart.
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The Dublin Pub: A Social and Cultural History
by Donal Fallon, and Dermot Bolger.
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The Irish Farm in Colour
by Michael B. Barry, and John O'Byrne.
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The Irish Pub: Invention and Re-Invention
edited by Moonyoung Hong, and Perry Share. Link
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The Letters of St. Patrick and Early Patrician Literature
by Philip Freeman.
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Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: church-raiding, politics and kingship
by Colman Etchingham.
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Articles
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Charlie Daly: republican brothers, partition and the ‘sham’ northern offensive
by Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
St Brigid’s shoe: metalwork, faith and politics in County Galway in 1710
by Cormac Bourke in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link -
Land, lineage and power: connecting dynastic conflict and climate change in late medieval Tír Chonaill
by Tadg Farrell Link -
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–1921
by Erin Geraghty in Women's History Review. Link -
Gendered hierarchies and marked bodies: narratives of household violence in early modern Ireland
by Dianne Hall in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Conor Cruise O’Brien and the activity of being an historian
by Hugh Hanley in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Records and Record-keeping in the Irish Foreign Service, 1919–36
by Benjamin Hazard in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Link -
Gymnastics and childhood in early-nineteenth-century Dublin
by Conor Heffernan in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–1745
by Sergio Lussana in Women's History Review. Link -
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
by Charlie Lynch in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Britishness, Irishness and class: Catholic identities in Anglo-Australia, 1880–1916
by Scott Denis McCarthy in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020
by Shaun McDaid in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link -
The Fossil Collections of Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878)
by Nigel T. Monaghan in Irish Journal of Earth Sciences. Link -
Irish Studies in the second-level school curriculum in Ireland 1973–1977: a missed opportunity for the development of an inclusive notion of Irish identity
by Tom O’Donoghue, and Thomas Walsh in Irish Studies Review. Link -
Reflections on Fifty Years as Editor/Co-Editor of The Economy of Ireland
by John O'Hagan in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link -
Women and Sexual Violence in the “1641 Depositions”
by Jane Ohlmeyer in Law and History Review. Link -
Irish History Writing before the 1960s: The Legacies of R. W. Dudley Edwards and T. W. Moody
by Declan O'Keeffe in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link -
Feeling Political: Carysfort Teacher Training College, Convent “Safe Houses” and the Irish Revolutionary Period
by Deirdre Raftery, Catriona Delaney, and Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck in History of Education. Link -
‘Wilde shamrock manners’: anglicisation and the politics of gesture in early modern Ireland
by John Walter in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
A Colourised Photograph of Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878)
by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson in Irish Journal of Earth Sciences. Link -
An Early Geological Map of Ireland: A Collaboration of Richard John Griffith and George Bellas Greenough
by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson in Irish Journal of Earth Sciences. Link
Reviews
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Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947–1996 Towards a Full Life?
reviewed by Hannah Brown in Social History of Medicine. Link
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Waterford’s Maritime World The Ledger of Walter Butler, 1750–7
reviewed by David Dickson in International Journal of Maritime History. Link
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Ancestral voices in Irish politics judging Dillon and Parnell.
reviewed by Peter Gray in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Jarlath Killeen. Imagining the Irish Child Discourses of Childhood in Irish Anglican Writings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
reviewed by Dianne Hall in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Reforming Galway. Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas’s collegiate church, 1550–1750.
reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
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A Tract for Our Times A Retrospective on Joe Lee's Ireland 1912–1985
reviewed by Peadar Kirby in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link
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The Orange Order A Global History
reviewed by Peter Lineham in New Zealand Journal of History. Link
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Irish Literature in Italy in the Era of the World Wars
reviewed by Victor Luftig in James Joyce Quarterly. Link
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The Root of All Evil The Irish Boundary Commission
reviewed by Ciarán McKillop-O'Shea in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link
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Joyce the Student University College, Dublin 1898–1902
reviewed by Ceren Kuşdemir Özbilek in James Joyce Quarterly. Link
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The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Volume I Endings and New Beginnings, 1530–1640.
reviewed by Neil Younger in Church History. Link
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