Irish History Brief for October 2026
Books
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Beginning Irish studies
by Graham Price.
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Cavan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
by Mel Farrell, and Brendan Scott.
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Cork: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
by Richard S. Grayson.
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Immigrants in Britain during the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History of Realities and Perceptions: Volume I: Migration
edited by Panikos Panayi. Link
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Imperial Feminists and the Irish Question: Collaboration, Resistance and the Limits of Solidarity, 1900-1921
by Erin Geraghty.
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Improvement and nationhood: Essays in Irish history, 1700–1850 presented to James Kelly
edited by David Hayton, and Ciaran Mac Murchaidh. Link
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John McGahern: A Writing Life
by Frank Shovlin.
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Legacy: Ireland's National Historic Properties
by David Hare.
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Sounding Ireland: Radio and the Making of Us
by Clíodhna Ní Anluain.
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The Reformation in Tudor Ireland: Political Theology and Princely Governance under Henry VIII
by James Leduc.
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This Modern Love: Architectural Gems Of 20th-Century Ireland Based on the Popular RTÉ Culture Series 100 Buildings
by Emma Gilleece.
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Urban heritage and contested planning: Making use of Ireland's built past
by Arthur Parkinson, and Mark Scott.
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Writing the Pale in the Irish Revival and the Harlem Renaissance
by Cody D. Jarman.
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Articles
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Vindicating Ireland: Historical Memory, Irish America, and Mathew Carey’s Later Histories of Ireland
by Benjamin Bankhurst in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Introduction: women’s grassroots activism: new histories of female activism in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland
by Caitríona Beaumont, Rachel Collett, Ruth Davidson, Anne Logan, and Anna Muggeridge in Women's History Review. Link -
Solidarity, friendship and women’s grassroots activism: transcending borders and transforming understandings of Anglo-Irish relations, 1920s–1970s
by Caitríona Beaumont, Susie Deedigan, and Martin Walsh in Women's History Review. Link -
Aid from New Zealand's Ulstermen: the New Zealander Anti-Irish Home Rule movement, 1911–14
by Samuel G. Beckton in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Irish Philosophy and the American Enlightenment During the Eighteenth Century
by David Berman in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Cumam croinic do Chloinn Néill: dán ar Chath an Átha Bhuí
by Pádraig A. Breatnach in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Patterns of Irish Emigration to America, 1783–1800
by Maurice J. Bric in Éire-Ireland. Link -
The long shadow of the past: How Irish history shapes attitudes towards the Israel–Palestine conflict
by Miceal Canavan, and Liam Kneafsey in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Link -
Michael Harward: ox-leech and philomath in Restoration Ireland
by Andrew Carpenter in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Film, Ireland, and the Third Reich: Representing the Irish Struggle for Independence as Nazi Propaganda
by Ciara Chambers, and Tobias Hochscherf in Film History: An International Journal. Link -
‘Floating Property’: Litigating Coastal Enclosure in Belfast’s Crown Court, 1886–1887
by CIANNA DEVITT in Environment and History. Link -
The Irish Comic Stereotype in the Almanacs of the Early Republic
by Robert K. Dodge in Éire-Ireland. Link -
“No Freight Paid So Well”: Irish Emigration to Pennsylvania on the Eve of the American Revolution
by Leroy V. Eid in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Dublin to Boston, 1719
by Robert J. Hunter in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Anti-abortion activism in Catholic Europe (1970s–present)
by Agata Ignaciuk, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska in The History of the Family. Link -
‘A revolutionary concept’: uncovering women’s activism in employment equality cases in the 1970s and 1980s Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom
by Suzanne Jobling in Women's History Review. Link -
John Quincy Adams and The Conquest of Ireland
by Jacqueline Kaye in Éire-Ireland. Link -
The epistemology of erasure from Irishness: from Plastic Paddies, children of not real emigrants, to not real nationals and Ireland is full
by Mairtin Mac an Ghaill in Irish Studies Review. 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 -
Castlereagh, Brian Maguire and the trade union campaign against repression in Ireland, 1977–80
by Charlie McGuire in Labor History. Link -
Údair an Bhlascaoid agus gníomh na scríbhneoireachta
by Deirdre Nic Mhathúna in Studia Hibernica. Link -
Folk devils and flower power: constructing the hippie counter-culture in Ireland, 1967–72
by Ciara Molloy in Irish Historical Studies. Link -
The American Revolution and Ireland
by Maurice R. O’connell in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Ireland and Irish America at America’s 250th
by Judith Ridner in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Tracking A Plant Killer: Historical and Scientific Reflections on the Irish Famine Pathogen and Its Control
by Jean Beagle Ristaino in Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Link -
Leixlip: a place name of Old Norse or Middle English origin?
by Eleanor Rye, and Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill in Studia Hibernica. Link -
“Wild Irishmen” and the Alien and Sedition Acts
by Rex Syndergaard in Éire-Ireland. Link -
Connecticut in the Irish-American Flaxseed Trade, 1750–1775
by Thomas M. Truxes in Éire-Ireland. Link -
‘Somewhere between Ireland and England’: navigating gay politics in the 1980s through the housing experiences of Irish men in London
by Thomas James Ward in Contemporary British History. Link
Reviews
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Forged in America how Irish–Jewish encounters shaped a nation
reviewed by Peter Admirand in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Blue Chippers from the Emerald Isle A History of Irish Footballers and Scholarships in the USA in the Twentieth Century
reviewed by Dara Anhouse in History of Education. Link
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Power, politics and territory in the ‘new Northern Ireland’ Girdwood Barracks and the story of the peace process
reviewed by Samuel Beckton in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Cathal Brugha ‘an indomitable spirit’
reviewed by John Borgonovo in Studia Hibernica. Link
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A ‘proper’ woman? One woman’s story of success and failure in academia
reviewed by Elizabeth Boyle in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Essays in memory of Eleanor Knott
reviewed by John Carey in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Turas na bliana Sleachta machnaimh
reviewed by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha in Studia Hibernica. Link
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County Longford Explored Irish History in the Hidden Heartland
reviewed by Stephen Collins in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Link
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Foreign Tongues Victorian Language Learning and the Shaping of Modern Ireland
reviewed by Margaret Crowley in The English Historical Review. Link
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Rituals of migration Italians and Irish on the move
reviewed by Selena Daly in Immigrants & Minorities. 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 Paul Dryburgh in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Finding Mary the untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844
reviewed by Brian Griffin in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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The unbroken covenant could Ulster unionists have controlled a nine-county Northern Ireland, 1920–1945?
reviewed by Jack Hepworth in Studia Hibernica. Link
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National hunt and point-to-point racing in Ireland a history
reviewed by Michael Hinds in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Christianity and the making of Irish law violence, virtue, and reason
reviewed by Niamh Howlin in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford and duke of Ireland (1362–1392) the rise and fall of a royal favourite
reviewed by Gillian Kenny in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Ireland and the Renaissance court political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450–1640
reviewed by William Kramer in Irish Historical Studies. Link
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Élie Bouhéreau The Collections and Communities of a Huguenot Refugee
reviewed by Vivienne Larminie in European History Quarterly. Link
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Séamas (An Setter) Ó Caoindealbháin Amhráin agus dánta
reviewed by Pádraig Ó Liatháin in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Shakespeare in Ireland adaptations and appropriations
reviewed by Tara L. Lyons in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster reassessments
reviewed by Liam Mac Mathúna in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster
reviewed by Linda Maynard in Cultural and Social History. Link
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George Moore, Confessions of a young man
reviewed by Darran McCann in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Ireland's opportunity global Irish nationalism and the South African war
reviewed by Donal P. McCracken in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Culture, contention and identity in seventeenth-century Ireland Antonius Bruodinus' anatomical examination of Thomas Carve's Apologetic Handbook
reviewed by Matthew McGinty in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Táin Bó Fliodhaise 'The Cattle Raid of Fliodhais'
reviewed by Síle Ní Mhurchú in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Once before I go by Phillip McMahon
reviewed by Jamie Murphy in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Staging Beckett in London
reviewed by Darren Murphy in Studia Hibernica. Link
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The radical thinking of Desmond Fennell
reviewed by Enda O’Doherty in Studia Hibernica. Link
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The stories of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh a County Mayo traveller
reviewed by Ríonach Ógáin in Studia Hibernica. Link
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The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560–1760
reviewed by Conor McDonough Op in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Shakespeare in Ireland Adaptations and Appropriations
reviewed by Madeleine Saidenberg in Shakespeare Quarterly. Link
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Cork/Corcaigh Irish historic towns atlas
reviewed by Caoimhe Whelan in Studia Hibernica. Link
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Lord Dufferin, Ireland the British Empire, c.1820–1900
reviewed by Jonathan Jeffrey Wright in Studia Hibernica. Link
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