Irish History Brief for November 2025
Books
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Calamity & Controversy: The Famine Years in Dingle & West Kerry
by Bryan MacMahon.
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Christianity and the Making of Irish Law: Violence, Virtue, and Reason
edited by David H. McIlroy. Link
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Druid Theatre: Fifty Years
by Patrick Lonergan.
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Emerald Emperors of the Ring: Irish and Irish American Boxers in the United States
by Kevin Martin.
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Flats and Cottages: Herbert Simms and the Housing of Dublin’s Working Class 1932–1948
by Eoin Ó Broin, and Mal McCann.
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Gaelic Wexford 1400–1660: Culture, landscape, settlement
by Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich, and Kevin Whelan.
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Gearoid Mor Fitzgerald
by Alan Kelly.
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Irish Emigration to England Explored Through Buildings: The Green and the Grey
by Samantha Lyster.
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James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures
by Niels Caul.
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Outsider Cinema: Independent and Amateur Filmmaking in Northern Ireland, 1929-1989
by Ciara Chambers.
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Siege in Ireland, 1641-53
by Padraig Lenihan.
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The 1920s London-Irish Theatre: A History
by Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel.
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The Outsiders Who Built Irish Entertainment: Maurice and Louis Elliman
by Wendy Elliman.
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The Sweetness of Lemon's: The Story of Ireland's Favourite Confectioner
by Cormac Moore, and Alan Tate.
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The War of Independence in East Cork: Tom O'Neill MA, Paul Busteed and Eugene Power
by Tom O'Neill MA, Paul Busteed, and Eugene Power.
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Waterford and the wider world, 1575-1825: An edited collection
edited by David Dickson.
Articles
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The forgotten spaces: Spatial memory and the challenge of reconciliation in post-conflict Belfast
by Elham Atashi in Memory Studies. Link -
‘Friends of the Country and of the Government’: Irish America, the Irish Government, and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement
by Melissa Louise Baird in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Link -
Roots of anticolonial universalist communism: between James Connolly and Frantz Fanon
by James Beirne in Interventions. Link -
Selected list of writings on Irish Economic and Social History Published in 2024
by Benjamin Casey in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
The British Government, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Civilian War Casualties of the Easter 1916 Irish Rebellion
by Daithí Ó Corráin in The Historical Journal. Link -
Dr Bríd McGrath (1958–2025)
by Coleman A. Dennehy in Parliaments, Estates and Representation. Link -
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins, and Carole Holohan in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
‘The experimental non-experimental committee’: governing the workhouse in late-eighteenth-century Dublin
by Padhraig Higgins in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well
by Kylee-Anne Hingston in Victorian Periodicals Review. Link -
‘A most curious collection of foreign beasts’: menageries in Ireland, 1790–1840
by Karina Holton in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
The Plough and the Stars: Socialism (1913) and Nationalism (1916)
by David Krause in New Hibernia Review. Link -
A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824
by Mary O'Sullivan in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
Writing Ireland: The Historiography of Irish Education
by Thomas Walsh, and Judith Harford in History of Education. Link
Reviews
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Community, Identity, Conflict The Jewish Experience in Ireland, 1881–1914
reviewed by Aidan Beatty in New Hibernia Review. Link
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A Man of Resolve Richard Henry Brunton, Civil Engineer at Work in 19th Century Great Britain, Japan and Ireland
reviewed by Mike Chrimes in The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology. Link
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Irish Food History A Companion
reviewed by Brenda Collins in Family & Community History. 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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Caricature and the Irish Satirical Prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c. 1780–1830
reviewed by Douglas Kanter in New Hibernia Review. Link
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The Case of Ireland Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848
reviewed by James Kelly in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Moral formations. Discipline and religion in the Irish army, 1922–32.
reviewed by Fearghal McGarry in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970–1994
reviewed by P. J. McLoughlin in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Irish Nurses in the NHS An Oral History
reviewed by Peter Nolan in Family & Community History. Link
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The removal of Irish paupers from Britain 1819 to the early twentieth century
reviewed by Paul O’leary in Immigrants & Minorities. Link
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Landscape design & revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815
reviewed by Karen Sonnelitter in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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