5677 Irish Historical Studies
Volume XXXVII Number 145 May 2010. €20.00.
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'A Fenian pastime'? Early Irish board games and their identification with chess by Timothy Harding 1
Michael Cusack and the revival of Gaelic games in Ulster by Dónal McAnallen 23
William Walker, Irish Labour and 'Chinese slavery' in South Africa, 1904-6 by Emmet O'Connor 48
Fenians, Ribbonmen and popular ideology's role in nationalist politics: east Tyrone, 1906-9 by Fergal McCluskey 61
'The most terrible assassination that has yet stained the name of Belfast': the McMahon murders in context by Tim Wilson 83
Review article: Everybody's doing it — the "Dictionary of Irish biography" and national biography by Lawrence Goldman 107
Reviews and short notices 112
Report of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences and fourteenth biennial report (seventieth and seventy-first years) of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences: May 2007—May 2009 174
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