Irish History Brief for December 2025

Books

• A Sense of Place: Studies in British and Irish legal history in memory of W.N. Osborough

  edited by Sparky Booker, and Kevin Costello. Link
  

• Gaelic World at War: soldiers & soldiering in Ireland 1366-1547

  by Fergus Cannan.
  Link
  

• The Mass Observation War Diaries for Northern Ireland

  by Brian Barton.
  Link
  

• The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland: A Material Culture View of Irish Shame, Oppression, Morality and Repression

  edited by Professor Catherine Harper.

Articles

• Hibernia the Lacemaker: Reading Gender, Class, and Empire in the Discourse of Nineteenth-century Irish Lace

  by Molly-Claire Gillett in Journal of Design History. Link

• ‘Matters best forgotten’: the Ulster Special Constabulary in 1922

  by Patrick Mulroe in Irish Historical Studies. Link

• Dynamism in a Stagnating Sector: The Birth of Ireland's Beef Industry 1950–60

  by Declan O’Brien in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

Reviews

• Oliver Cromwell Commander in Chief

  reviewed by Robert Armstrong in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Dirt, Dwellings and Culture Living Conditions in Early Medieval Dublin

  reviewed by Rebecca Boyd in Medieval Archaeology. Link
  

• A Tract for Our Times A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985

  reviewed by Graham Brownlow in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Thomas Hobbes and political thought in Ireland,c.1660–c.1730 the leviathan released

  reviewed by Ian Campbell in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Caricature and the Irish Satirical Prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780–1830

  reviewed by Benjamin Casey in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

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

  reviewed by Graham Connelly in Cultural and Social History. Link
  

• Money and Irish Catholicism An Intimate History 1850–1921

  reviewed by S. J. Connolly in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland

  reviewed by Sean Connolly in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Aiding Ireland the Great Famine and the rise of transnational philanthropy

  reviewed by Sophie Cooper in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts, Relations and Commodities

  reviewed by David Dickson in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Outrage in the Age of Reform Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845

  reviewed by Sean Farrell in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Monasticism in Ireland AD 900–1250

  reviewed by Suzanne O.S.B. Fitzmaurice in American Benedictine Review. Link
  

• Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922

  reviewed by Marnie Hay in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900–1250

  reviewed by Seán Ó Hoireabhárd in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Textiles of Ireland. Archaeology, Craft, Art

  reviewed by Dolores Kearney in Medieval Archaeology. Link
  

• Human Capital and Empire Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690–c.1820

  reviewed by James Kelly in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• 4The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland a reader

  reviewed by Laura Kelly in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Finding Molly Johnson Irish Famine Orphans in Canada

  reviewed by Willeen Keough in The Canadian Historical Review. Link
  

• Rethinking Medieval Ireland and Beyond

  reviewed by Sarah Kerr in Medieval Archaeology. Link
  

• Mere Bagatelles women’s diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810.

  reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Irish Nurses in the NHS An Oral History

  reviewed by Megan McAuley in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Ireland’s Loss Britain’s Gain Irish Nurses in Britain Nightingale to Millenium

  reviewed by Peter Nolan in Family & Community History. Link
  

• British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560–1800 Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion

  reviewed by Thomas O’Connor in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Reforming Galway Civic society, Religious Change and St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church, 1550–1750

  reviewed by Jane Ohlmeyer in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Anarchy and authority Irish encounters with Romanov Russia

  reviewed by Maeve O’Riordan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Reforming Galway civic society, religious change and St Nicholas’s collegiate church, 1550–1750

  reviewed by Liam O’Rourke in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Spiritual Wounds Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War

  reviewed by Jennifer Redmond in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800

  reviewed by Honor Rieley in Scottish Literary Review. Link
  

• William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism

  reviewed by Jay R. Roszman in Irish Economic and Social History. Link
  

• Analecta Hibernica special issue – the fire of 1922. No 53.

  reviewed by Stephen Scarth in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• The Routledge History of Irish-America

  reviewed by Bernadette Whelan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

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