Wine, genealogy and cross-dressing: History Ireland

Who, family historian or not, can resist the cover image of the latest issue of History Ireland magazine? While I may be biased by the prominance of the word 'genealogy', I think this to be the most compelling cover I can remember.

Inside this edition are the following features and sections:

• Harvard, Celtic skulls and eugenics in de Valera’s Ireland
• Nano Nagle (and other women) in Hobart Cathedral
• Conservation works at Cormac’s Chapel
• Time to decommission ‘Wolfe’ Tone at Bodenstown?
• Artefacts: Diving-bell, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
• Gems of Architecture: The Emporium, Listowel, Co. Kerry
• Kindred lines: Newspaper death notices
• 100 years ago: RMS Leinster sunk
• Early Irish Jesuits
• Ireland’s true survay’, 1630s
• Antiquaries: Wine, genealogy and cross-dressing
• Centenary: The women who died for Ireland
• The capture and death of Major Geoffrey Lee Compton-Smith, 1921
• A short history of women’s hockey in Ireland
• Ireland and the history of blasphemy

I strongly recommend a subscription to this magazine to all Irish family historians.  See this page for a one-year online subscription for  just €25.