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- ISSN: 0021-1214 (Print), 2056-4139 (Online)
- Editors: Clodagh Tait Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, Elaine Farrell (Book Reviews) Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and Andrew Sneddon (Book Reviews) Ulster University, UK
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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
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Failure and flexibility in Plantation Munster: the O’Driscolls at law
- 01 June 2023,
- Between the early sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, a simple inheritance dispute arose over the O’Driscoll lordship of Collymore in west Cork, in the...
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A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland
- 17 January 2023,
- The publication of this special issue, seeks to recognise the significant impact of the 1992 ‘Agenda’ on Irish scholarship
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‘Almost all the world’s most notable catastrophes have been caused by women’? Reassessing Derbforgaill
- 09 May 2022,
- There can be little doubt that the Anglo-Norman (or English) invasion of the twelfth century was one of the most important events of Irish history. By the time...
History blog
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From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon
- 29 January 2025,
- What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country with Brexit, but across the world authoritarian populists have also evoked nativist histories that they promise will make their country great again....
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Making Trust in Early Modern London
- 07 January 2025,
- In the bustling streets of medieval and early modern London, trust was a precious commodity, just as it is today. But who did Londoner’s choose to trust?…...
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Policing and pension reform in nineteenth-century London
- 06 January 2025,
- In the late nineteenth century, at the same as large corporations began to emerge as central features of industrial capitalism, parallel developments were taking...
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