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- ISSN: 0021-1214 (Print), 2056-4139 (Online)
- Editors: Marnie Hay (Research Articles) St Patrick’s Campus, Dublin City University, 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. All research articles are published open access.
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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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An Editor’s Perspective: Laikwan Pang on Public Humanities
- 15 October 2026,
- We’re pleased to feature Laikwan Pang, Editor of Public Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies...
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An Editor’s Perspective: Julia Kindt on Public Humanities
- 14 October 2026,
- We’re pleased to feature Julia Kindt, Editor of Public Humanities and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney. A historian of ancient...
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Beyond the ‘Lady Spy’: Noor Inayat Khan, Violette Szabo, and the Making of SOE Agents
- 24 September 2026,
- The phrase “lady spy” is hard to escape when writing about women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive. It appears in headlines, documentaries, book blurbs,...
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