Early Christian Ireland
St Patrick: the legend & the bishop by Thomas O’Loughlin
Is there a ‘historically correct' Patrick?
Vol 14, No. 1, January/February 2006, pp 16-19
Tudor conquest of Ireland
Francis Cosby (1510-80): Stradbally, Queen’s County & the Tudor conquest of Leinster by Michael Quinn
English adventurer Francis Cosby personified the application of the increasingly aggressive policies of Tudor conquest to the Gaelic lordship of the O’Mores and this article examines the impact of the policy in the general area of modern County Laois, and Stradbally in particular.
Vol 14, No. 5, September/October 2006, pp 20-4
Ireland, the slave trade & attitudes to slavery
Vol 15, No. 3, May/June 2007
The Irish & the Atlantic slave trade by Nini Rodgers (pp 17-23)
Outline of the Irish involvement in the 17th- & 18th century Atlantic slave trade & its impact on the Irish economy
‘Struggling against oppression’s detestable forms’ by Cian McMahon (pp 24-29)
Outline of the career of R.R. Madden, who believed that the enslavement of Africans in the sugar colonies and the subjugation of Catholics in Ireland were interlocking parts of a wider problem of suppression.
Southern citizen: John Mitchel, the Confederacy & slavery by James Quinn (pp 30-5)
Outline of the American career of Ireland’s most famous (or infamous) advocate of slavery and how this squared with his support for Irish freedom.
Ireland under the Union New 20/10/2007 Dublin Castle & the First Home Rule Bill: The Jenkinson-Spencer Correspondence by Owen McGee Throws new light on the degree to which security considerations underpinned Gladstone's decision to put aside his previous opposition to Irish legislative independence and suddenly convert to Home Rule in January 1886. Vol. 15, No. 5, September/October 2007, pp 44-9
Anglo-Irish war
Keeping an eye on the usual suspects: Dublin Castle’s ‘Personality Files’, 1899-1921 by Fearghal McGarry
An introduction to a key source for students of the Irish revolution - a collection of 19,000 pages of secret intelligence documents on 500 republican suspects, including Michael Collins.
Vol 14, No. 6, November/December 2006, pp 44-9
Northern Ireland
Seán South of Garryowen by Haddick Flynn
The story of the incident behind the famous ballad - an IRA raid across the border on Brookeborough Royal Ulster Constabulary Barracks on 1 January 1957.
Vol 15, No. 1, January/February 2007, pp 36-41
Sunningdale & the 1974 Ulster Workers’ Council strike by Gordon Gilllespie
A look at the demise of an earlier experiment in power-sharing in the light of the recent formation of and executive in Northern Ireland.
Vol 15, No. 3, May/June 2007, pp 42-7 |