Volume XXVIII. Number 114 . Winter 2012. €15.00
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A description of the painting by F. Glenn Thompson 361
A note on the artist by James Gorry 362
The early library of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham by Ciara Ball 363
Antrim militia muskets in 1756 by Ian Montgomery 387
The Royal Hibernian Military School: a salute to its New History by Ivan Nelson 391
The last Prize Day (Howard R. Clarke) 398
The attempt to re-locate the Royal Hibernian Military School in Northern Ireland 1922-1924 by Howard R. Clarke 399
West Belfast and the Great War by Jane Leonard 411
‘This a private shindy or can any bloke join in?’: Why neutral Irish volunteered for service in the British Forces during the Second World War by Jeremy Jenkins 419
‘True Citizens’ and ‘Pariah Dogs': demobilisation, deserters and the de Valera government, 1945 by Bernard Kelly 455
Notes: Ethnic composition of the royal army in Ireland, March 1598; Sir Walter Raleigh on the consequence of the acquisition by the Irish of better weapons, 1603 471
Book Reviews 473