Irish Historical Studies, founded in 1938, is the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. 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, manuscript and printed; and reviews of books and periodicals having a bearing on Irish history. Annual lists of writings on Irish history, carried in Irish Historical Studies from 1938 to 1979, are now available digitally through Irish History Online (www.irishhistoryonline.ie).
No. 174 of the journal (November 2024) was distributed to subscribers in June 2025.
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In the autumn of 2014 the Management Board of Irish Historical Studies made the decision to enter a partnership with Cambridge University Press and from issue no. 155 (May 2015), the journal has been published by Cambridge. The journal contunues to be published twice a year. For details of annual subscription rates for individuals see our subscriptions page.
The joint editors are Dr Clodagh Tait, Dr Andrew Sneddon and Dr Elaine Farrell and it has a fourteen person International Advisory Board. The journal is copy-edited by Dr Ciaran McCabe.
In 2024 the IHS Board agreed to award a First Book Prize for scholars resident on the island of Ireland for a book on an Irish or Irish Diasporic historical subject published in the calendar year 2024, with a value of €500. A book prize committee was established for this year of Peter Gray (chair), Sophie Cooper and Andrew Sneddon, and the prize was advertised with a closing date of 1 March 2025. The IHS First Book Prize Committee are delighted to be able to offer the 2024 prize to Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), for The Medieval Irish kings and the English invasion (Liverpool University Press, 2024). An honourable mention is awarded to Ruth Duffy for Healthcare and the Troubles: the conflict experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998 (Liverpool UP)
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