Irish History Brief for September 2026
Books
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'A miserable thing to be a woman': Mary Anne Tyrrell (1821-94) and her landed estate
by Lesley Whiteside.
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A Letter Home: Irish Correspondence from America 1818–1972
by Kerby A. Miller, and Breandán MacSuibhne.
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Donegal town, 1474-1974: Matthew Potter
by Matthew Potter.
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Invasion 1169
edited by Peter Crooks, and Sean Duffy. Link
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Pax Normannica?
by Peter Crooks, and Sean Duffy in Invasion 1169. Link
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Ireland and the empires of the twelfth-century world
by David Bates in Invasion 1169. -
Intellectual, literary and religious culture on the eve of invasion
by Elizabeth Boyle in Invasion 1169. Link
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Kings and kingship in post-Clontarf Ireland
by Ronan Mulhaire in Invasion 1169. Link
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Derbforgaill and the expulsion of Diarmait Mac Murchadha
by Denis Casey in Invasion 1169. Link
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Organizing invasion
by Marie Therese Flanagan in Invasion 1169. Link
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Henry II and Ireland
by Nicholas Vincent in Invasion 1169. Link
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Aristocratic violence
by Colin Veach in Invasion 1169. Link
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Immigration and plantation
by Seán Duffy in Invasion 1169. Link
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Expugnatio Hibernica – reconsidered
by Michael Staunton in Invasion 1169. Link
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‘Song of Dermot and the Earl’ – reconsidered
by Keith Busby in Invasion 1169. Link
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Laudabiliter – reconsidered
by Thomas W. Smith in Invasion 1169. Link
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Reflexes of the invasion in Gaelic sources
by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh in Invasion 1169. Link
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The invasion and the literature of Gaelic Ireland
by Ruairí Ó hUigínn in Invasion 1169. Link
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The emergence of the Hiberno-English literary tradition
by Caoimhe Whelan in Invasion 1169. Link
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The castellation of Ireland
by Linzi Simpson in Invasion 1169. Link
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Building the English church in Ireland
by Rachel Moss in Invasion 1169. Link
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The lordship of Ireland and the European ‘commercial revolution’
by Bruce M.S. Campbell in Invasion 1169. Link
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Orpen’s Ireland under the Normans at 100
by Robin Frame in Invasion 1169. Link
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Orpen v. MacNeill
by Ruairí Cullen in Invasion 1169. Link
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Ireland's first sanitorium: The St Ann's Hill Hydro, County Cork, 1843-1953
by Sinead McSweeney, and Ronan Foley.
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John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society: 'This Wild Infuriate'
by Neil Cronin.
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Moynagh Lough Studies 1
edited by Michael Potterton. Link
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Scandal, satire and the battle for reputation in Limerick's ascendancy, 1815-20: 'Unconquerable Malice'
by Brian Leahy.
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The Irish-Scottish world in the Middle Ages
edited by Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn, and Peter Crooks. Link
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The Shortest History of Dublin
by Gillian O'Brien.
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The political world of Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde of Ballynastragh, Co. Wexford, 1862–1935
by Brian Fennell.
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Articles
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Aid from New Zealand’s Ulstermen: the New Zealander Anti-Irish Home Rule movement, 1911–14
by Samuel G. Beckton in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Architecture and the Designed Environment
by Conor Lucey in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Cumam croinic do Chloinn Néill: dán ar Chath an Átha Bhuí
by Pádraig A. Breatnach in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Eagarfhocal Editorial
in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr: Ceapach léann Gaeilge an ochtú haois déag
by Ciarán Mac Murchaidh in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Eighteenth-Century Irish History: Then and Now
by Patrick Walsh in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Eighteenth-Century Irish Literary Studies: Then and Now
by in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Founding Editors’ Preface
by , and in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
How to Find a Windward Passage; or, Mapping Eighteenth-Century Ireland’s Colonial Legacies
by Finola O’Kane in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Léann na Gaeilge san ochtú haois déag (agus i mblianta tosaigh na haoise dár gcionn)
by Nollaig Ó Muraíle in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Leixlip: a place name of Old Norse or Middle English origin?
by Eleanor Rye in Studia Hibernica. Link -
A Letter Signed ‘Voltaire’, to Richard, comte Barnewall of Trimlestown, 27 February 1748 – Unknown to Besterman (D3625a)
by Edward M. Langille in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Michael Harward: ox-leech and philomath in Restoration Ireland
by Andrew Carpenter in Studia Hibernica. Link -
‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750)
by Declan Kavanagh in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Putting Eighteenth-Century Ireland Underwater
by Colleen Taylor in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Staging a Stereotype: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) and the Drunken Irishman
by Katie Snow in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
Teaching Eighteenth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
by Clíona Ó Gallchoir in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
‘They were both at war and contention, and destroying the country on all sides, regarding the sovereignty’: Gaelic succession, primogeniture, political instability and violence within clans
by Matthew Mcginty in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Údair an Bhlascaoid agus gníomh na scríbhneoireachta
by Deirdre Nic Mhathúna in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Who was William Maple?
by R. A. Somerville in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Link -
‘Skeleton Woods’; The Retreat of Woodland Habitats and the Irish Forestry Sector, 1650–1920; A Critical Statistical Review
by Andy Bielenberg in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
Irelands in Transition, 1780-1916
by Ciara Breathnach in Irish Economic and Social History. Link -
The lord deputy’s deputy: Christopher Wandesford’s role in Sir Thomas Wentworth’s Irish administration of Charles I’s reign
by Charlotte Brownhill in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Colonial lives: an early modern English family in Ireland and India
by Marc Caball in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link -
An English Queen through Irish Eyes: Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, and Elizabeth I
by Mary Christian in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
Death and the Irish Diaspora: An Introduction
by Sophie Cooper, and Christopher Cusack in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Shared Ireland—Partition and Exclusion
by Pól Ó Dochartaigh in Irish Studies in International Affairs. Link -
Death and Dying in an Australian Family Archive: Irish Australian Women and Their Traditions, 1850–1940
by Loretta Dynan, and Dianne Hall in Éire-Ireland. Link -
The Many Lives of Edmund Burke: A Historiographical Review
by Ioannes Chountis Fabbri in The Historical Journal. Link -
Bernard Shaw–Portrait of the Author as a Young Irishman in London: 1. Wild Oats 1876–1894
by Peter Gahan in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
"Paid for the Coffin, $75.00": Expressing Irish Ethnicity through Death in the Civil War Army and Navy
by David T. Gleeson, and Damian Shiels in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Personal and Political: Feminism, Ireland, and Charlotte Shaw
by Dorothy A. Hadfield in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context
by Brian Hanley in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Link -
‘Strangers within: Ireland’s first women professors
by Judith Harford in Women's History Review. Link -
Reading Rebellion: The 1916 Easter Rising in the Catalan-language Press
by Richard Huddleson in Journal of War & Culture Studies. Link -
Dying to Be Seen: AIDS, Diaspora, and the Queer Irish Novel
by Declan Kavanagh in Éire-Ireland. Link -
‘What the Dane has done, the Irishman can do’: Denmark and agrarian modernisation in the Irish Free State
by Jason Knirck in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
"A Living Tomb": An Irish American Fenian in Canadian Prison, 1900–1914
by Shane Lynn in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Food, Drink, and Consolatory Practices at Irish Wakes and Funerals 1975–2025: An Autoethnographic Exploration
by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire in Folklore. Link -
Dissecting the Irish Corpse: Mourning, Mutilation, and Mayhem in London, ca. 1832–1900
by Julie Mathias in Éire-Ireland. Link -
The Irish Republican Association of South Africa, 1920–2: a reappraisal
by Tom McGrath in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
Interrupted Diasporas: Death on Board the Essex Convict Hulk, 1824–1837
by Anna McKay in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Introduction: Bernard Shaw’s Ireland: An International Perspective
by Audrey McNamara, and Justine Zapin in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
Death, Silence, and Belonging: Rethinking the Irish Diaspora from Argentina
by María Medina, and Andrea Fuanna in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Waking the Diaspora: Performing Traditional Funerary Customs on Foreign Shores
by Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Staging the agallamh: the influence of poetic dialogues on plays and performances in the Revival
by Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh in Irish Studies Review. Link -
“The Dream of a Madman”: Prophecy and Planning in Bernard Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island and Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s A New Amazonia
by Lisa C. Robertson in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
“It is expedient that one woman die for the people”: Shaw’s Saint Joan and O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman as Irish Female Martyrdom Plays
by Arthur Togores in SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. Link -
National identities and history textbook narratives: parallels between British rule in Ireland and the Kingdom of Hungary
by Benedek Marton Vasy in National Identities. Link -
To this small island: Immigrants and immigration in early medieval Ireland
by Patrick Wadden in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. Link -
May You Die in Ireland: Death and Aging in a Foreign Country
by Anna Walsh in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Mayor Richard J. Daley and the Northern Ireland conflict, 1968–76
by Andrew J. Wilson in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Reviews
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The universities of Scotland, Ireland and New England during the British civil wars contested seminaries
reviewed by Coleman A. Dennehy in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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The Essential Táin Bó Cúailnge and Other Stories from the Ulster Cycle
reviewed by Jessica Hemming in Folklore. Link
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Pious and promiscuous life, love and family life in Presbyterian Ulster
reviewed by Tom Hulme in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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The 1920s London-Irish theatre a history
reviewed by Eamonn Jordan in Irish Studies Review. Link
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Disorder Contained Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900
reviewed by Grace Maly in Social History of Medicine. Link
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‘This is my truth, tell me yours’: lived experiences and the Northern Ireland conflict
reviewed by Shaun McDaid in Irish Historical Studies. Link
Work reviewed: Death in the fields the IRA and East Tyrone by Jonathan Trigg; Deniable contact back-channel negotiation in Northern Ireland by Niall Ó Dochartaigh; The disappeared the hidden victims of Northern Ireland’s conflict by Joana Etchart.
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Exhibiting Irishness Empire, Race and Nation, c. 1850–1970
reviewed by Philip McEvansoneya in Victorian Studies. Link
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Irish domestic servants in transatlantic culture, c.1870–1945 intimate connections
reviewed by Cian T. McMahon in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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America in Ireland culture and society, 1841–1925
reviewed by Sinéad Moynihan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Rituals of Migration. Italians and Irish on the Move
reviewed by Jennifer Redmond in International Review of Social History. Link
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Élie Bouhéreau. The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee
reviewed by Ruth Whelan in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Pre-Famine fever epidemics a case study of the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin
reviewed by Shelby Zimmerman in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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