Irish History Brief for June 2026
Books
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Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe
edited by Dan Armstrong, Áron Kecskés, Charles C. Rozier, and Leonie V. Hicks. Link
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From Memory to Understanding: The Christian Brothers in Ireland 1922-1970
by Thomas O'Donoghue.
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Many of our Best Lie There: Dublin: July 1922–May 1923 The Irish Civil War
by Derek Molyneux, and Darren Kelly.
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The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism
by Patrick J. Mahoney.
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The Minority Mind: Jews and Protestants in Catholic Ireland, 1912–1968
by Eugenio Biagini.
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Viking Connections: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Viking Congress
edited by Clare Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Nancy Edwards, and David Griffiths. Link
Articles
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‘I have tried to keep the microphone in mind’: Broadcasting the Mid-Century Radio Story at Radio Éireann
by Phyllis Boumans in Irish University Review. Link -
Subscription as Cultural Infrastructure: Networks, Publics, and Irish Writing in the Global Marketplace, 1890–1922
by Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin in Irish University Review. Link -
Success and Struggle in ‘the busy, working, paying world of London’: Irish Nineteenth-century Novelists in the Records of Mudie’s Select Library and the Royal Literary Fund
by Karen Wade in Irish University Review. Link -
‘Surprised and delighted at “getting into print”’: The Lady of the House [1890–1923] and its Historical Readers
by Lauren Ottaviani in Irish University Review. Link -
Plenty to chew on: Irish food history
by Juliana Adelman in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Women working in Irish language broadcasting: tensions between minority categories
by Sarah Arnold in Women's History Review. Link -
From Boom to Bust: The Lordship of Ireland and the European ‘Commercial Revolution’
by Bruce M. S. Campbell in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
He became Irish in death: the Rafferty-O’Meara murder trials and press representations of Irishness in 1870s Chicago
by Sophie Cooper in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Shares of suffering: Transnational mothering in Irish Famine-era letters
by Cara Delay, and E. Moore Quinn in Women's History Review. Link -
Incest in Independent Ireland, 1924–50
by David M. Doyle in Law and History Review. Link -
Irish Paupers in Scotland Between the Wars: Deportation, Citizenship and Empire
by David Feldman, and Becky Taylor in History Workshop Journal. Link -
Making Ireland Protestant: The Campaign to Enforce Religious Uniformity in Ireland, 1603–1630
by Alan Ford in Reformation. Link -
‘The little Irish mother’: Irish Australian women and childbirth in the 1860s
by Dianne Hall in Women's History Review. Link -
Military service pensions for the dependants of deceased combatants of the Irish Revolution and Civil War in Northern Ireland
by Cormac Keenan in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
The Telephone Company of Ireland, 1878–93: An Exploration of the Early Marketing, Development, Expansion, Financing and Users of Telephony
by Adrian Kirwan in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
Representing the Irish Civil War (1922–23) in Nazi-Era German ‘Ireland Books’: Hermann Harder’s Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home) (1937) in Wider Context
by Fergal Lenehan in Journal of War & Culture Studies. Link -
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie and the Political Economy of British Land Systems: From the Critique of the Classical Landed Property Reform to the Birth of Irish Historical Economics
by Manolis Manioudis in Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Link -
Ulster’s Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism Since 1920: by Edward Burke, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 338 pp., £29.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9781009469272
by Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link -
Rotten roots: the colonial genealogies of Irish enslavers
by Ciaran O’Neill, Finola O’Kane, and Chris Nikkel in The History of the Family. Link -
Pregnancy and performance: Irish women’s strategies for childbirth from Dublin workhouses to New York hospitals, 1855–1865
by Charlotte Rich in Women's History Review. Link -
Strum, strum and be hanged: reassessing the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival
by Maura Valenti in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Reviews
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Anglo-Catholicism and the Church of Ireland
reviewed by C. D. C. Armstrong in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
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The Oxford handbook of religion in modern Ireland
reviewed by Eugenio F. Biagini in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
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Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World, A Transnational History
reviewed by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly in History of Education. Link
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The Dublin annals of Prior John de Pembridge op and his Dominican continuator. An account of Irish affairs, 1162–1370
reviewed by Richard Graham Gameson in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
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Poverty Archaeology Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law by Charlotte Newman and Katherine Fennelly, and Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880–1918 by Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy
reviewed by David R. Green in Victorian Studies. Link
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Ireland’s Opportunity, Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War
reviewed by Adrian Guelke in Africa. Link
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The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts and the crisis of British Protestantism
reviewed by Henry Jefferies in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Work reviewed:
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Élie Bouhéreau, The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee Dublin
reviewed by James Kelly in Journal of British Studies. Link
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Rotten Prod the unlikely career of Dongaree Baird
reviewed by Christopher J. V. Loughlin in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Ulster’s Lost Counties Loyalism and Paramilitarism Since 1920
reviewed by Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link
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Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870–1920 by Brian Griffin, and Nether World Crime and the Police Courts in Victorian London by Drew D. Gray
reviewed by William Meier in Victorian Studies. Link
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Willibrord between Ireland, Britain, and Merovingian Francia (690–739), Beyond Mission
reviewed by Marco Mostert in The Catholic Historical Review. Link
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Calendar of papal letters relating to Great Britain and Ireland, XXI1513–1521, Leo X, Lateran registers, part ii
reviewed by Robert Norman Swanson in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
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Plantagenet Ireland
reviewed by Nicholas Vincent in Journal of British Studies. Link
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