In December 1965, the Ambassador of Ireland, Dr Eoin MacWhite, hosted a reception to launch the second issue of the ANU Historical Journal at the Irish Embassy. MacWhite, himself a historian, had published the leading article in the issue, titled ‘Ireland in Russian Eyes under the Tsars’. The number was edited by Anne Kingston, Mother Mary Kneipp, Zenta Liepa and Robert Moss, and was unusually small.