Ireland

Tim Pat Coogan points the finger of blame for the Great Famine at ministers in Lord Russell’s government, which came to power in 1846, and sees echoes of the disaster in the Republic’s current economic plight.

Maurice Craig visits the Irish capital.

Rayner Heppenstall uses the examples of Britain and Ireland to argue against absolutist views of race and nation.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Cyrill Falls describes how a succession of rebellions challenged a sodden but sturdy English soldiery in late 16th century Ireland.

In our final round up of histories of the nations that make up the British Isles – or, if you prefer, the Atlantic Archipelago – Maria Luddy examines an event which shaped 20th-century Ireland, the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising.

Cromwell’s military campaign in Ireland is one event that the British can never remember and the Irish can never forget. Tom Reilly questions one of the most enduring and troubling topics in Irish history. 

Roger Hudson on the circumstances behind an eviction in County Clare, Ireland, photographed in July 1888.

Mark Rathbone looks at the Battle of the Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Garden and at what happened to those involved.

Before the First World War, Irish Unionists and Nationalists were poised to fight each other over the imposition of Home Rule by the British. Then, remarkably, they fought and died side by side, writes Richard S. Grayson.

Kevin Haddick Flynn looks at the attempt of the Grand Old Man of Liberalism to solve the Irish question and his conversion to Home Rule in the mid-1880s.

Clair Wills reviews a book on reporting in the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) by Maurice Walsh.

Michael Morrogh shows that Renaissance men like Sir Walter Ralegh had a decidedly darker side.