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Published for the Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd. Irish Historical Studies, founded in 1938, is the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and is the authoritative voice in Irish history. It publishes articles embodying original research on Irish history; articles on the scope and teaching of Irish history; select documents, with editorial comment; select and critical bibliographies and guides to sources.
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Irish Historical Studies blogs
- Promiscuous Presbyterians? Courtship, marriage and sexual activity in 18th and 19th century Ireland
- 18 January 2019,
- This blog accompanies Leanne Calvert’s Irish Historical Studies open access article ‘‘He came to her bed pretending courtship’: sex, courtship and...
- ‘…the Parliament’s Favourite’: Helen Arthur and the Williamite confiscation
- 14 January 2019,
- This blog accompanies Frances Nolan’s Irish Historical Studies article ‘‘The Cat’s Paw’: Helen Arthur, the act of resumption and The Popish pretenders...
- Writing histories in a time of commemoration: Ireland and Finland
- 05 December 2017,
- “I maintain that the analogy between Finland and Ireland is almost perfect” -Michael Collins At the end of 2017, with Ireland approaching the half-way mark of what is designated a “Decade of Centenaries,” a country at the opposite edge of northern Europe will celebrate a hundred years of nationhood.…...
History blog
- Mobile armed mobs in deadly riots
- 16 April 2019,
- Experts on ethnic riots agree that the ethnic composition of localities affects their susceptibility to violence. They are however divided on which are more...
- ‘I had enough last war’: Remembering the First World War during the Second World War
- 03 April 2019,
- My article for the Historical Journal examines how the memory of the First World War shaped morale at the start of the Second World War.
- One British Thing: A Bottle of Welfare Orange Juice
- 28 March 2019,
- What does an empty bottle of concentrated orange juice have to do with colonialism? Some of you may remember the Welfare Orange Juice that the British government provided to pregnant women and young children from the middle of the Second World War until 1971.…...
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