Irish History Brief for May 2026
Books
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Converting Ireland: Religious education, language and colonialism
by Karina Bénazech Wendling.
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Irish Narratives in Argentina: Diaspora, Memory, and Identity
by María Luján Medina.
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Irish townspeople: The early modern urban experience, c.1400–c.1640
by Prof Colm Lennon.
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Neither Confirm Nor Deny: British Intelligence, Lawless Agent Running and the Suppression of Truth
by John Ware.
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Patronage and Profit: The East India Company Career of Sir Robert Cowan in Bombay and the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1719-35
by Edward Owen Teggin.
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649
by Joan Redmond.
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SOAP: A History of Sweny's Pharmacy
by Lee Sheridan.
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Said the Dead
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.
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The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism
by Patrick J. Mahoney.
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The Irish Pope: Paul Cullen, 1803-1878
by Colin Barr.
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The Political Dimension of Myles na gCopaleen’s Cruiskeen Lawn
by Germán Asensio Peral.
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The Sailor and the Seamstress: One family’s extraordinary story of the high seas and the big house in nineteenth century Ireland
by Liam O'Connor.
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Articles
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Introduction: reproduction and motherhood in modern Ireland
in Women's History Review. Link -
Jordi Erín, the Irish Political Influence on Catalan Nationalism Through Theatre
by Joan Esculies in Cultural and Social History. Link -
Coping with the Great Irish Famine: the agency of Skibbereen
by Norbert Götz in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England
by Barry Hazley, Jack Crangle, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte, and Fearghus Roulston in Journal of British Studies. Link -
On wet-nursing, fosterage and the age at which fosterage began in medieval Ireland
by Aogán Ó hIarlaithe in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Poetry and plantation in early modern Ireland: Speed to Swift
by Willy Maley in Irish Studies Review. Link -
Ancestral Home: Australian Prime Minister James Scullin’s 1930 Visit to Ireland
by Thomas Mohr in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Link -
Local Arbitration Courts in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917–1920
by Thomas Mohr in The Journal of Legal History. Link -
Will there ever be enough books about women? Mary MacSwiney, biographies of women, and Irish history
by Jennifer Redmond in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Factors of avoidability: maternal mortality in Northern Ireland, 1948–1969
by Diane Urquhart in Women's History Review. Link -
‘Political in Every Phrase’: A Polemical Irish History Primer (Cork, 1815)
by ZoË Van Cauwenberg in Notes and Queries. Link
Reviews
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Good trouble the Selma, Alabama, and Derry, Northern Ireland connection 1963–1972
reviewed by Melissa Baird in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Love in the Lav A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972
reviewed by Michael G. Cronin in Journal of the History of Sexuality. Link
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Power and powerlessness in union Ireland life in a palliative state
reviewed by Sean Farrell in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War
reviewed by Yuan Huang in Contemporary British History. Link
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Public history in Ireland difficult histories
reviewed by Victoria Kingston in Irish Studies Review. Link
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Crime and the criminal classes in Ireland, 1870–1920
reviewed by Michael Lawrence in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Textiles of Ireland. Archaeology, craft, art
reviewed by Gale R. Owen-Crocker in Medieval Archaeology. Link
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Exploring Ireland’s Viking Age Towns. Houses and Homes
reviewed by Catherine Swift in Medieval Archaeology. Link