Sir,—In his review of my book (HI 25.3, May/June 2017) Emmet O’Connor compares my original Ph.D dissertation of 1984 with the new publication. If he had really read the original […]

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Sir,—I have recently been researching the life of the theatre director Tomás Mac Anna for the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography, and I came across something that may […]

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Sir,—Your ‘Bite-sized History’ column (HI 25.3, May/June 2017) correctly notes that ‘echoes of the Know-Nothing Party’ of the mid-nineteenth century are heard again today in the United States. This sad […]

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US Military in Ireland Centenary Project. By Damian Shiels When Commander Joseph Taussig and his destroyers arrived in Cork Harbour on 4 May 1917, they represented the vanguard of a […]

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BY AODHÁN CREALEY JULY 16/1923 The Censorship of Films Act—‘to protect the citizens of the State from any films considered to be indecent, obscene, or blasphemous … or subversive of […]

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