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The Failure of Burton's Bank and its Aftermath by Rowena Dudley 1
A Gentlemanly Tour on the Fringes of Europe: William Hartigan Barrington in Scandinavia and Russia, 1837 by Angela Byrne 31
A Note on Mutual Savings and Loan Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Eoin McLaughlin 48
The Electric Hare: Greyhound Racing's Development in Ireland, 1927–58 by David Toms 69
Review article
Festschrifts for Irish historians by Niall Ó Ciosáin 86
Archives Report
Business Records in the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) — Meath and Westmeath 97
Bibliography
Selected list of writings on Irish economic and social history published in 2012 by Brian Casey 98
Reviews 114
Secretary’s report 212
Erratum 214