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"Relentlessly striving for more": Hugh de Lacy in Ireland

"Relentlessly striving for more": Hugh de Lacy in Ireland



Colin Veach outlines the career of Hugh de Lacy, born in England of Norman stock, who played an important role in the early history of the Anglo-Norman invasion.
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Returning to its "old form"
Returning to its "old form"

Roman Catholic church renewal and inter-church relations in south Tipperary, 1730–1840

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Men at war: nineteenth-century Irish war correspondents from the Crimea to China
Men at war: nineteenth-century Irish war correspondents from the Crimea to China

Daniel Mulhall outlines the careers of three Irish war correspondents—Willliam Howard Russell, Edwin Lawrence Godkin and George Lynch.

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From the outside in: the international dimension to the Irish Civil War
From the outside in: the international dimension to the Irish Civil War

Bill Kissane takes issue with the description of the Civil War as ‘the madness within’ and focuses instead on the external factors, in particular Britain’s role, in creating the conditions for and shaping the outcome of the conflict.

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A nursery of editors: the Cork Free Press, 1910–16
A nursery of editors: the Cork Free Press, 1910–16

Although the private papers of leading members of the Irish Parliamentary Party have been accessible in major Irish repositories for decades, finding aids for them are scanty and much interesting material remains unknown. Patrick Maume highlights one such item, in the hope of encouraging more detailed cataloguing and searching of these neglected collections.

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