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Using and abusing the dying and the dead in early modern Ireland

Using and abusing the dying and the dead in early modern Ireland



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The Yelverton Affair: a nineteenth-century sensation
The Yelverton Affair: a nineteenth-century sensation

Helena Kelleher Kahn outlines the background to and course of a legal case involving religion, marriage and bigamy that changed the course of Irish legal history

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Field-Marshal, Sir Henry Wilson: imperial soldier, political failure
Field-Marshal, Sir Henry Wilson: imperial soldier, political failure

Mark Coulter reflects on the career of a man usually remembered for the circumstances of his death

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‘The Londonderry Herr’: Lord Londonderry and the appeasement of Nazi Germany
‘The Londonderry Herr’: Lord Londonderry and the appeasement of Nazi Germany

Neil Fleming reassesses the motivation and role of a former Northern Ireland minister for education in appeasement in the 1930s

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The origins and nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe
The origins and nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe

Was there a generic fascism? Or were Italian Fascism and German Nazism distinct phenomena? John Horne assesses the evidence

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Pigs, Paddies, prams and petticoats: Irish Home Rule and the British comic press, 1886–93
Pigs, Paddies, prams and petticoats: Irish Home Rule and the British comic press, 1886–93

The British comic press provided an outlet for the full scope of anti-Irish prejudices. Michael de Nie analyses a range of cartoons from Fun and Judy to find out what they were saying

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Miller’s crossing
Miller’s crossing

Kerby Miller is Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Author of the award-winning Emigrants and exiles: Ireland and the Irish exodus to North America (1985), he has more recently completed a collaborative project (along with Arnold Schrier, Bruce Boling and David Doyle), Irish immigrants in the Land of Canaan, exploring the letters and memoirs of migrants from Ireland to North America in the eighteenth century. Paddy Fitzgerald talked to him during a recent visit to the Ulster American Folk Park.

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