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War and Famine in Ireland, 1580-1700
The first in a series of articles on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early modern Ireland. By John Dorney. Famine, “the ...
The top Irish Story features of 2011
At the start of the new year, we review our most viewed of our articles and interviews published in 2011. The top ten most viewed articles were; Life and Debt – A Short History of public spending, ...
An Ebook Christmas
In case you’ve just fired up your Kindle and want to read some quality Irish History Ebooks, check out our list of books that cover some of the key events in Irish History all priced at $2.99 ...
Today in Irish History, 24 December 1922, Roundup at Midnight Mass
A short seasonal tale of the Irish Civil War in Kerry. By John Dorney. Curragheen,CountyKerry, Christmas Eve, 1922. Twenty two guerrillas of the IRA came down from their winter dugouts in the hills ...
Book Review: Pawns in the Game Irish Hunger Strikes 1912-1981
William Butler reviews Pawns in the Game Irish Hunger Strikes 1912-1981 by Barry Flynn published by the Collins Press in Cork at €12.99. In ancient Ireland one of the few ways for an individual to pressurise a person ...
Book Review: The Battle for Cork, July-August 1922
The Battle for Cork, July-August 1922 By John Borgonovo, Mercier 2011 Reviewer: John Dorney On August 8 1922, 450 Free State soldiers clambered out of a converted passenger ferry at Passage West, near Cork city. ...
Today in Irish History, 6 December 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty is Signed
On December 6, 1921, a Treaty was signed between Irish and British negotiators that determined the shape of 20th century Ireland. This is an adapted extract from The Story of the Irish Civil War, by John ...
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- The Chanson d'Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade
- Becoming Neapolitan. Citizen Culture in Baroque Naples
- Reversing Babel. Translation among the English during an Age of Conquest, c. 800 to c. 1200
- Albert. A Life
- What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present
- Bourgeois Consumption: Food, Space and Identity in London and Paris, 1850-1914
- The Making of British Socialism
- An Accidental Utopia? Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Egalitarian Society, 1880-1940
- Managing the Body: Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880-1939
- Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the Harlaxton Symposium 2009
Pue’s Occurrences
- Obituary: Pue S. Occurrences, 2009-2012
- Happy Christmas from all at Pue’s
- Winner of competition to win a copy of T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin (ed), The Course of Irish History, 2011
- Re-evaluating Memory
- Pue’s Christmas book competition
- The world’s oldest camera
- 5 things I have learned at the National Print Museum
The Irish History Podcast
- The Pursuit of Power (Part III): A New Millenium and A New King. (980 -1000)
- Dublin in photos: the difference a century makes.
- Virtual tour of Caernarfon Castle, Wales
- Remains of a 17th Century child found in Dublin.
- William and Daniel Cormack: from Execution to International Fame
- Special: Irelands first Witchburning
- 8 Reasons why the Building Boom was bad for Irish Archaeology
New Books In History
- Cynthia Wachtell, “War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914″
- Michael David-Fox, “Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941″
- Gerald Steinacher, “Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice”
- Kariann Akemi Yokota, “Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation”
- Jay Rubenstein, “Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse”
- David Ciarlo, “Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany”
- Colin Woodard, “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”
- Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russian Life”
- David Potter, “The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium”
- Sally Ninham, “A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American Postgraduate Degrees, 1949-1964″