The Irish Sword is the official journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 of the Military History Society of Ireland

Military History Society of Ireland

The Military History Society of Ireland promotes the study of military history, and in particular the history of warfare in Ireland and of Irishmen in war....

 containing articles on the military history

Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....

 of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

, book reviews, notes, notices, queries, illustrations and proceedings

Proceedings

In academia, proceedings are the collection of academic papers that are published in the context of an academic conference. They are usually distributed as printed books either before the conference opens or after the conference has closed. Proceedings contain the contributions made by researchers...

.

It includes information on subjects such as "West Cork

West Cork (UK Parliament constituency)

East Cork, a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Until the 1885 general election...

 and the Elizabethan wars" and the experiences of Irish soldiers in Swedish service.

The journal has been published since 1949, normally with two issues a year. The editor-in-chief is Kenneth Ferguson. Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy

Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy

Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy was an Irish historian born in Galway. He attended University College Galway and served as auditor of the College's Literary and Debating Society in the 1931/1932 academic year...

 was founder editor, editing the journal for the first ten years to 1959. Kevin Danaher

Kevin Danaher

Kevin Danaher was a prominent Irish folklorist with a special interest in ethnography and military history....

edited from 1960 to 1971.

External links

• The Military History Society of Ireland