Irish History Brief for April 2026

Books

• A queer scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945

  by E-J Scott, Rebecca Jennings, Matt Cook, and Justin Bengry.
  Link
  

• Catholic Sisters, Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008

  by Briege Rafferty.
  Link
  

• English Countess, Irish Earl: The Social World of Frances, Countess of Clanricard, 1567-1632

  by Bernadette Cunningham.
  Link
  

• Gothic: building castles in post-union ireland

  by Judith Hill.
  Link
  

• Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

  by Stephen O'Neill.
  Link
  

• Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland

  by Joe Cleary.
  edited by Ciaran O'Neill, and Billy Shortall. Link
  

• Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland and Brittany

  by Paul Robichaud.
  Link
  

• The British Army, Society and Soldiering in Ireland, 1699-1793

  by Dr Andrew P. Dorman.
  Link
  

• The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence

  by Louise Brangan.
  Link
  

• The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census

  edited by Orlaith McBride, and John Gibney. Link
  

Articles

• Riding the Waves of Change: The History and Culture of Women’s Surfing in Ireland

  by Clare Ablett, Rachael Telford, and Conor Heffernan in The International Journal of the History of Sport. Link

• Hidden Women in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dublin Print Selling Trade: A Case Study of Sarah and Ann Allen

  by Benjamin Casey in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• The History of a Forgotten Diaspora: The Polish Minority in Ireland, 1945–1957

  by Michał Dworski in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1960s–1970s: The Ends of (Informal) External Association

  by David Erdos in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link

• Life to the Full: The Experience of Returned Irish Missionaries

  by Carmel Gallagher in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link

• Books for old soldiers? Creating a library at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1711–15

  by Jason McElligott in Irish Historical Studies. Link

• The Irish coroner: death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846–78. By Michelle McGoff-McCann . Pp 254. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2023. €35 hardback.

  by Conor Reidy in Irish Historical Studies. Link

• Crises and opportunities: Irish royal towns during the Bruce invasion*

  by Qiqing Tan in Historical Research. Link

Reviews

• Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

  in Contemporary British History. Link
  

• Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800–2024

  reviewed by David F. Banas in Parliaments, Estates and Representation. Link
  

• Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815

  reviewed by Heather Braiden in International Journal of Maritime History. Link
  

• History’s Erratics Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870–1930

  reviewed by James P. Breen in American Catholic Studies. Link
  

• Siblinghood and sociability in nineteenth-century Ulster

  reviewed by Leanne Calvert in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Telling the Truth Is Dangerous

  reviewed by Nicholas Canny in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link
  

• Confluences of Law and History

  reviewed by Stephen Collins in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link
  

• Supernatural bodies stigmata in modern Britain and Ireland

  reviewed by Sean Connolly in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Medieval Dublin XX

  reviewed by Natasha Dukelow in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

• Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland

  reviewed by Douglas Kanter in History: Reviews of New Books. Link
  

• The apocalypse in Ireland

  reviewed by James Kelly in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• The Irish in eighteenth-century Bordeaux

  reviewed by Mary Ann Lyons in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland

  reviewed by Scott Denis McCarthy in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link
  

• Contraception and Modern Ireland

  reviewed by Elizabeth O’Brien in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Link
  

• The Irish coroner death, murder and politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846–78

  reviewed by Conor Reidy in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Commemorating revolutionary Ireland from above and below
  Work reviewed: Armagh. The Irish revolution, 1912–23

  reviewed by Brendan Scott in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Global Education in Ireland

  reviewed by Susanne Timm in History of Education. Link
  

• Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

  reviewed by Thomas Walsh in History of Education. Link
  

• Seekers of Wonder Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth Century Italy and Ireland

  reviewed by Simon Young in Folklore. Link
  

• Exhibiting Irishness empire, race, and nation, c.1850–1970

  reviewed by Jianbing Zhou in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

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