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Editor’s recommendation
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Collaborator and Survivor? Gerald the eleventh Earl of Kildare and Tudor Rule in Ireland
Sir Roger Casement deserves better. The former senior British Consular official 1895-1913 had, as his friend, the highly respectable Presbyterian minister /.B. Armour of Ballymoney put it, 'an inborn hatred of tyranny and cruelty' which led him to expose cruelties in the Congo and in the rubber plantations of Brazil.
The historians of Ireland often refer to, but rarely scrutinise, ritual commemorations. Although the Twelfth of July parades, celebrating the Battle of the Boyne, embody most people's image of the Orange Order, the small corpus of work available on the Institution hardly analyses the event.
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