Minding our language I am grateful to Ian Chapple (‘Letters’, opposite page) for giving me the opportunity to clarify our policy on submissions in the Irish language. The publication of […]
Read More →Sir, —In the July/August 2007 issue of History Ireland (Flight of theEarls special) Prof. John McGurk, who in an earlier issue of yourjournal had drawn freely on my Kinsale for […]
Read More →Sir, —There is no doubt that Mr Pat Cooke is keen to court controversywith his pseudo-philosophical deconstruction of Tara and its landscapein his ‘platform’ piece, ‘Plato’s landscape: the quarrel over […]
Read More →Sir, —Usually I read your magazine from cover to cover with enthusiasm and interest. However, the issue for July/August 2007 (Flight of the Earls ‘special’) contained two articles completely incomprehensible […]
Read More →Ireland: the politics of enmity 1789–2006 Paul Bew (Oxford University Press, £35) ISBN 9780198205555 According to the preface, this book ‘is about the conflict between the Protestant British—both on the […]
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