Irish History Brief for July 2026

Books

• Flappers and the Jazz Age: women and leisure in Ireland, 1920s-30s

  edited by Eileen Hogan, and Louise Ryan. Link
  

• Forbidden Ireland: Church and State - 1951 to the present day

  by T. P. O'Mahony, and Rosita Sweetman.
  Link
  

• Irish Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Writing

  by James Kelly.
  Link
  

• Landlords and tenants in County Carlow, 1879-1960

  by Oliver Whelan.
  Link
  

• Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905–1923

  by Anna Lively.
  Link
  

• The Judges of Ireland, 1866-1921

  by Daire Hogan.
  Link
  

• The day-books of Joshua Boyle: Legal agent in early Stuart Ireland

  edited by David Heffernan. Link
  

Articles

• Mothering strategies and the early twentieth-century Irish workhouse: a microhistory

  by Judy Bolger in Women's History Review. Link

• Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland, 1936 and 1940 46th Annual T. S. Eliot Memorial Lecture

  by Fran Brearton in The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Link

• ‘If she had not that pain, she would have the pain of labour’: abortion in nineteenth-century Ireland

  by Elaine Farrell in Women's History Review. Link

• Eighteenth-Century Irish Interest Rates – Market Failure in a Booming Economy - Paul V. Kelly, 2026

  by Paul V. Kelly in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• Treason and dissimulation in the Henrician Reformation: Leonard Grey and the polarisation of politics in the Irish Pale, 1534–40

  by James Leduc in Irish Historical Studies. Link

• Coens, Leavys, and others: anglicisation, assimilation, and “Jewish” surnames in Ireland in the early 20th Century

  by Pól Ó Dochartaigh in Irish Studies Review. Link

• The Young Joel Mokyr, Nobel Laureate: Ireland and Beyond

  by Cormac Ó Gráda in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• Marriage bars and motherhood: an oral history case study of modern Ireland

  by Jennifer Redmond, Deirdre Foley, and Judith Harford in Women's History Review. Link

• The “Irish question” and the National Front: the challenge of British loyalism during the early Troubles, 1969–75

  by Jack Traynor in Irish Studies Review. Link

Reviews

• Élie Bouhéreau The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee

  reviewed by Peter Fox in The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Link
  

• The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

  reviewed by Andrew Hadfield in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Link
  

• The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine an archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

  reviewed by Henry A. Jefferies in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

• Outsider Cinema Independent and Amateur Filmmaking in Northern Ireland, 1929-1989

  reviewed by Caroline Langhorst in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Link
  

• British Intelligence and the Fenians, 1855–1880

  reviewed by Jay Roszman in Irish Historical Studies. Link
  

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