Irish History Brief for August 2026

Books

• A Short History of Neurosurgery in the UK and Ireland: Influences, Founders and Units

  by Jonathan Pollock.
  Link
  

• Boyhood's fire: Na Fianna Éireann at war 1916-1986

  by James Durney.
  Link
  

• Fixers: Women and Housing Corruption in 1950s Belfast

  by Marianne Elliott.
  Link
  

• Guerrilla Warfare in Cork: A History through the Personal Reminiscences of the West Cork 3rd Brigade, 1913–1923

  by Joseph McKenna.
  

• Irish Female Entrepreneurship: A History of Female Business Ownership, 1922–1972

  by Thérèse Moylan.
  Link
  

• The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry

  edited by Eric Falci. Link
  

• The Evolution of English and Irish Crystal Glass (1622–1699): Out of the Melting Pot

  by Colin Brain.
  

• The Plot Against Ireland: The Forger, Spies, Conmen and Terrorists Who Conspired Against Irish Home Rule

  by Myles Dungan.
  Link
  

• The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

  edited by Ingrid Zwarte, and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco. Link
  

• The Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Force 1881-3: A Short History and Complete Alphabetical List of the "Magpies"

  by Jim Herilhy.
  Link
  

• The Symphony in Britain and Ireland since 1900: A Critical History

  edited by Nicholas Jones. Link
  

• Women, Violence and Twentieth-Century Warfare: The Irish Revolution and Its Legacies

  by Linda Connolly.
  Link
  

Articles

• Hidden Sacred Places of the Catholic Mass: Irish Ecclesiastical Influence in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland

  by Hilary Joyce Bishop in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Newly available for research—the 1926 census of Ireland

  by Brenda Collins in Family & Community History. Link

• ‘What Ireland has Done Bengal Will Do’: The Impact of the 1916 Proclamation on Bengali Revolutionaries

  by Sayantan Dasgupta in Journal of War & Culture Studies. Link

• Scéal Oileáin: Saothar Gaeilge Liam agus Thomáis Uí Fhlaithearta

  by Gearóid Denvir in New Hibernia Review. Link

• ‘A policy of national emasculation’? The gendered debate over Irish neutrality in the Second World War

  by Timothy Ellis-Dale in Irish Historical Studies. Link

• Persian Imaginaries and Colonial Irish Consciousness: The Pseudo-Translations of James Clarence Mangan

  by Hamid Farahmandian in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Dublin Edition of His Narrative

  by Patricia J. Ferreira in New Hibernia Review. Link

• From one king to another: A diplomatic analysis of letters sent by Irish kings to the Plantagenets in the thirteenth century

  by John Marshall in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link

• Moral Reform and Financial Innovation: Temperance Tontines in Ireland, c.1833–1850

  by Andrew McDiarmid in Irish Economic and Social History. Link

• Soldiers on the move in Ireland and abroad,1691–1815

  by Charles Ivar McGrath in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link

• Epidemic Belfast: Health Heritage and Public History in Northern Ireland

  by Ian Miller, Hannah Brown, Rhianne Morgan, and Eugenie Scott in The Public Historian. Link

• ‘God-fearing citizens and Empire builders’: The Emigration of Belfast’s Workhouse Boys to Canada 1903–1917

  by Olwen Purdue in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link

• ‘Courting disaster’? pilgrim mobility in late medieval Ireland through the lens of Saint Patrick’s Purgatory, C.1350–C.1550

  by Tara Shields in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link

• Sarah Purser and the development of Ireland’s public art museums

  by Logan Sisley in Women's History Review. Link

• Mothering, matrescence and the changing meanings of ceremonies of churching after childbirth in Ireland, c.1800–2000

  by Clodagh Tait, and Judith Hurley in Women's History Review. Link

• “One More Payment ’til It’s Mine!”: The Abandoned Car in the West and Colin Barrett’s Rural Refuse(als)

  by Julieann Veronica Ulin in New Hibernia Review. Link

• Ghost-conjuring in Ireland’s ancient east: a paratextual reading of Mary St. John’s “Ellauna: a legend of the Thirteenth Century” (1815)

  by Zoë Van Cauwenberg in Irish Studies Review. Link

Reviews

• The 1920s London-Irish theatre a history

  reviewed by Eamonn Jordan in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

• Rot An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

  reviewed by Douglas Kanter in New Hibernia Review. Link
  

• Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century A Global History

  reviewed by John Pollard in Church History. Link
  

• Birth of a state the Anglo-Irish Treaty

  reviewed by Thomas Tormey in Irish Studies Review. Link
  

• The Life of St Brendan and His Prayer

  reviewed by Jonathan M. Wooding in JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Link
  

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