Irish History Brief for January 2026
Books
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Irish Ecomedia
by Katherine M. Huber.
Link
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The History of the Protestant Associations of Counties Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan from 1920 to 2016
by Samuel Beckton.
Link
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Understanding Homelessness in Ireland Since Independence: Decades in the Making
by Eoin O'Sullivan, Mike Allen, and Sarah Sheridan.
Link
Articles
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Memorability in an Age of Memorialization: The Great Famine and Remembrance of "Events" in Victorian Ireland
by Guy Beiner in Victorian Studies. Link -
Whither Ireland?: Peadar O’Donnell, Communism, and Libel in the Free State
by Niall Carson in Irish University Review. Link -
Degrees of Change: The Historiography of Women’s Higher Education in England and Ireland
by Jane Martin, and Judith Harford in History of Education Quarterly. Link -
Urban rebels in medieval Connacht: the revolt of Galway, 1388–9
by Patrick McDonagh in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland*
by Eddie Meehan in Historical Research. Link -
Navigating Ireland’s ‘ambivalent heritage’ of nationalism and empire: a Corkonian’s journey, 1849–1901
by Julyan G. Peard in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Nationalists and unionists in a northern town (1914–1922): Lisburn, the Rising and the Swanzy Riots
by Ciaran Toal in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Reviews
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Supernatural Bodies Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland
reviewed by Karl Bell in British Catholic History. Link
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The Oxford handbook of religion in modern Ireland
reviewed by Conor Brockbank in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Shadow of a Taxman Who Funded the Irish Revolution?
reviewed by David Brundage in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Poverty, children and the poor law in industrial Belfast, 1880–1918
reviewed by Sarah-Anne Buckley in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Print and the Celtic languages publishing and reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900
reviewed by Marc Caball in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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America in Ireland Culture and Society, 1841–1925
reviewed by Marion R. Casey in Irish University Review. Link
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Ireland’s opportunity global Irish nationalism and the South African War
reviewed by Jack Crangle in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Contraception and modern Ireland a social history, c.1922–92
reviewed by Niamh Cullen in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast
reviewed by Mary E. Daly in Victorian Studies. Link
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Éirinn & Iran go Brách Iran in Irish-nationalist historical, literary, cultural, and political imaginations from the late 18th century to 1921
reviewed by Hamid Farahmandian in Irish Studies Review. Link
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Telling the truth is dangerous how Robert Dudley Edwards changed Irish history forever
reviewed by Alan Ford in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Irish first ladies and gentlemen, 1919–2011
reviewed by Myrtle Hill in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Empire and enterprise. Money, power and the Adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars
reviewed by Neil Johnston in Parliaments, Estates and Representation. Link
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Spirit of Revolution Ireland from below 1917–23
reviewed by Jason Knirck in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
reviewed by Cathy Leeney in Irish University Review. Link
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Exhibiting Irishness Empire, race and nation, c.1850-1970
reviewed by Michael Loughman in British Catholic History. Link
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Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
reviewed by Tara M. McCarthy in Victorian Studies. Link
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Healthcare and the Troubles the conflict experience of the Northern Ireland health service, 1968–1998
reviewed by Lucy Newby in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Gealach na gCuanta
reviewed by Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill in The Journal of Music in Ireland. Link
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Retired Missionaries and Faith in a Changing Society
reviewed by Maria Power in British Catholic History. Link
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Irish nurses in the NHS an oral history
reviewed by Caitlín Smith in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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