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Abstract: This article traces the development of the term ‘outrages’, which by the nineteenth century was used in an almost exclusively Irish context. It argues that British and Irish politicians used the term to communicate the collective insecurity they felt particular forms of Irish violence exposed, especially concerning the stability of the Act of Union. ‘Outrages’ was deployed rhetorically to brand Irish violence as politically subversive. Simultaneously, its meaning was systematized by the newly reformed Irish constabulary who surveilled particular forms of Irish violence and quantified its existence. Politicians used these statistics as one vital measure of British progress in Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the British government Information Research Department's (IRD's) involvement in secret and covert, or unattributable, propaganda in Northern Ireland during the Troubles period of 1971 through 1973, including IRD officer Hugh Mooney's role in this regard. The IRD's negative propaganda against the Irish Republican Army (IRA), including its claim that the IRA was involved in drug trafficking, is discussed. The IRD's concerns on the influence of communism in the Troubles conflict is also discussed.

The death of Earl Richard Marshal at Kildare in 1234 at the hands of his Irish enemies could not be let pass by his family and political affinity. The sources are such that we are able to follow the actions and motives of his younger brother and heir, Gilbert Marshal, in punishing Richard's opponents and re-establishing his family's damaged prestige. Gilbert can be seen to be both an exploiter and victim of the social mechanism called by contemporaries 'mortal enmity'. Gilbert's actions bring us nearer to an understanding of aristocratic honour and mores in the high middle ages, at a time when the aristocracy was pitted against the statist impulses of royal government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the past-20-years research into the experiences of Irish female migrants in twentieth century Britain has been steadily accumulating. Based largely on the use of oral history, this work has been important in shedding light on various aspects of women’s experiences, including how young women negotiated unfamiliar urban spaces and asserted an ‘ethnic’ identity in England. The dynamics shaping the re/construction of such experiences, and what they can tell us about the fashioning of gendered migrant selves, has, by contrast, received relatively little attention. Based on an in-depth analysis of the personal migration narratives of three women who migrated from southern Ireland to England between 1945–69, this article aims to provide insight into how migrants’ early experiences of settlement in post-war England were conditioned by the consumption and internalization of a number of competing constructions of femininity circulating within British and Irish culture during the post-1945 period. While these constructions made available a number of different frameworks on which women could draw to order their experiences and fashion an identity, tensions within and between them could also create problems for the process of self-construction. As well as the particular circumstances of each individual’s encounter with their new environment, the distinctive character of women’s negotiation of these tensions alludes to the different ways women sought to construct a preferred version of their past in post-war England, raising questions about the ways past and present, public and private, interact in the production of migrant histories. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]