History Ireland

16/05/2025

Book your free tickets here for the next History Ireland Hedge School! Celebrating 25 years of Tipperary Museum. All details can be found below!
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-future-for-our-past-tickets-1323551420929

14/05/2025

SAVE THE DATE!
‘𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧-𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬’
18 October 2025
Delighted to announce that our 8th Annual National Monuments Service Conference will be taking place in-person and online on Saturday 18 October 2025.
Register now open via Eventbrite https://bit.ly/Within-Without


Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Christopher O'Sullivan TD
Archaeology Ireland
Trinity College Dublin

13/05/2025

An interesting article by Pat Dargan on Private John Keane’s emergency.

PRIVATE JOHN KEANE’S EMERGENCY By Pat Dargan Above: The postcard sent to John Keane in [date?] by an LSE colleague, with the out-of-step marcher labelled ‘John’. It’s not clear why it’s addressed to ‘Jim’ at the top (possibly in error?); it’s addressed to ‘John Keane’ on the reve...

06/05/2025

Colum Kenny’s article, How Joyce’s Tower Looked as Ulysses Appeared, can be found in the latest edition of History Ireland.

By Colum Kenny This fine watercolour of Sandycove Point, Co. Dublin, from the Dún Laoghaire side recently came to light at Adams Auctioneers. It includes ‘Joyce’s Tower’, as that structure is known today. Matthew Fortescue, part-time painter and otherwise an engineer with Guinness, dated it ....

02/03/2025

New **History Ireland** out now.

Among the big stories (de Valera and hate mail, British Labour party & Northern Ireland) are some brilliant insights into other sources for Irish history.

Irish Film Institute (IFI) - 1915 & 1916 clips
These two clips were filmed as newsreels in the early twentieth century by British Pathé and the Topical Film Company. Held in British agency archives, they were added to the IFI Irish Film Archive in 2018

Meath County Council In the Kells Urban District Council collection is a Free Milk Scheme register dating from March 1935.

National Library of Ireland In 1552 an Irish office of arms was established, presided over by the newly created Ulster King of Arms. We have surviving records of seven visitations in Ireland, but there may have been others of which no records survive.

In all good bookshops and newsagents and here: https://historyireland.com/

Wordwell Books

Illustrated Irish history magazine suitable for the scholar and the general reader. Feature articles from all periods of history, book reviews, news, events

12/02/2025

Our next lecture is on the last day of this month, Friday February 28th. Looks like a very interesting talk. Hope to see many of you there

12/02/2025

📢 Call for Articles – Bann Disc Journal (Volume 31) 📢

Do you have an interest in local history? Do you have a story from the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough that needs to be told and shared?

The Bann Disc Journal (Volume 31) is looking for contributors! Whether it's a fascinating piece of local heritage, a personal connection to historical events, or new research on our past, they would love to hear from you.

For more information about the journal and article requirements, please contact the Editor, Aaron Callan, at [email protected].

📝 Get involved and help preserve the history of the Causeway Coast and Glens!