Irish History Brief for February 2026

Books

• A Concise History of Ireland

  by Caitriona Clear.
  Link
  

• Ancient British and Irish Celts in Greek and Roman Sources

  by Raoul McLaughlin.
  Link
  

• Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833: Worse than War

  by Sile McGuckian.
  Link
  

• Celtic Art Across the Ages

  edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus. Link
  

• Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna

  by Professor Natasha Sumner.
  Link
  

• Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

  edited by Isabelle Torrance. Link
  

• James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1872-1970

  by Michael Loughman.
  Link
  

• Oliver Cromwell: The brave, bad man of British history

  by Professor John Morrill.
  

• Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic

  by Gerard Shannon.
  Link
  

• Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland

  by Evan Bourke.
  Link
  

• The Irish Free State and the National Army, 1922–24

  by Jack Kavanagh.
  Link
  

• The Irish Tricolour: The Truth behind the Symbols and Struggles that Defined a Nation

  by John Crotty.
  Link
  

• The Little History of Wicklow

  by Chris Lawlor.
  Link
  

Articles

• Father Matthew Russell, the Business of the Irish Monthly, and the Irish Women Writers Who Contributed to Its Success

  by Geraldine Brassil in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Legal Authority and Ambiguity in Ireland during the Establishment of the State in 1922

  by Laura Cahillane in Éire-Ireland. Link

• Understanding today's ‘shifting political sands’ in Northern Ireland through the history of the notion of consent

  by Joana Etchart in Parliaments, Estates and Representation. Link

• An Post Office: National Theater and the Role of Diplomacy in the Abbey Theatre's Productions of Rabindranath Tagore's The Post Office

  by Olivia Gacka in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Stained Glass and Censorship: The Suppression of Harry Clarke's Geneva Window, 1931

  by Andrew J. Haggerty in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Parnell's Failure? The Transatlantic Reception of Parnell's Speech to Congress

  by Hugh Hanley in Éire-Ireland. Link

• One British Archive: Stocked Stacks in the Great Plains: British and Irish Collections at the University of Kansas’s Kenneth Spencer Research Library

  by Elspeth Healey in Journal of British Studies. Link

• ‘Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice

  by Stephen Hewer, Philomena Mullen, and Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores in Postcolonial Studies. Link

• Rita Duffy: Prelude to a Retrospective?

  by Jennifer Keating in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The Falklands Factor: Sour Grapes and Cold Fury in Anglo-Irish Relations with Implications for the Northern Ireland Conflict

  by Michael Kerr in The International History Review. Link

• Journeying Westward: Darrell Figgis, Achill Island, and the Irish Cultural Revival

  by Richard Kirkland in New Hibernia Review. Link

• The Gallagher Family Commonplace Book: An Account of a Transatlantic Donegal Manuscript

  by Pádraig Ó Liatháin in Éire-Ireland. Link

• The Year in Digital Humanities: 2024–5

  by Victoria L. McAlister, and Margaret K. Smith in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link

• A Bardic Pickup Artist: Courtly Seduction Lesson or Parodic Play?

  by Sarah E. McKibben in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link

• Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21

  by John C. Mitcham in Journal of British Studies. Link

• "The Undignified Conduct of the Ostrich": The Gaelic League, the Parish Priest, and the Kiltimagh Doctor Controversy of 1905

  by Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, and Nollaig Mac Congáil in Éire-Ireland. Link

• A Singular Woman: The Prioress of Lismullin Convent and Her Seal

  by Brittany Rancour in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link

• “A Place Built For God [Locum Deo Construendum]”: The Geographic Function in St. Finán Cam’s Hagiographic Tradition

  by Matthew Carey Salyer in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link

• Rediscovery and First Publication: Liam O'Flaherty's 1946 Poem for an IRA Hunger Striker

  by Spencer J. Weinreich in Éire-Ireland. Link

• English and Irish Identity in Early Medieval Accounts of St. Oswald

  by Sharon M. Wofford in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link

Reviews

• Rituals of migration Italians and Irish on the move

  reviewed by Selena Daly in Immigrants & Minorities. Link
  

• Good Trouble The Selma, Alabama, and Derry, Northern Ireland, Connection, 1963–1972

  reviewed by Gianluca De Fazio in Journal of Southern History. Link
  

• Digital Humanities Project Reviews

  reviewed by Gary Dempsey in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
  

• Landscapes of the learned placing Gaelic literati in Irish lordships, 1300–1600

  reviewed by Simon Egan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley

  reviewed by Zenobie Garrett, and Gary Dempsey in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
  

• Sea and Settlement in Ireland

  reviewed by Susan A. Johnston in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
  

• Fionn Folklore Database

  reviewed by Ciaran McDonough in Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Link
  

• Mere Bagatelles Women's Diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810

  reviewed by Christina Morin in Eighteenth-Century Studies. Link
  

• The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond Histories, Memories and Legacies

  reviewed by Carl O'brien in New Hibernia Review. Link
  

• Nineteenth-Century African American Speeches in Britain and Ireland

  reviewed by Pia Wiegmink in American Literary History. Link
  

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