History Ireland magazine: May-June edition published

The May/June edition of History Ireland has been published. In addition to news, letters, and its usual columns and book and museum reviews, the following features are included in the current issue:

St Odrán, Gerald of Wales and Christian martyrdom in medieval Ireland

The Irish Brigade at the Battle of Fontenoy

Hurling in Thurles and district before the GAA

Isaac Butt and the founding of the Home Rule movement

A New Zealand perspective on the Easter Rising

‘The shadow of the gunman’ in 1932 & 2020

The second funeral of James Daly, Connaught Rangers mutineer, 1 November 1970

Ulysses I: Griffith in Nighttown

Ulysses II: 'Topnobbers’, James Joyce & Louis Werner

The printed magazine can be purchased in good bookstores and newsagents in Ireland.

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