The Hellfire Club, Co. Dublin

It is thought that the remarkable lodge on Mount Pelier Hill was erected c. 1725. The game-rich lands in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains had come into the possession […]

Description of a bardic school

Irish lawyer Thomas O’Sullivan wrote this description of a bardic school in a preface to the Marquis of Clanricarde’s memoirs (London, 1722): ‘The students upon thorough examination being first divided […]

Irishmen in the American Civil War

Sir, —As Lar Joye pointed out (HI 18.1, Jan./Feb. 2010), the story ofIrishmen in the Confederate Army is less well known than that of thosewho served with the Union. There […]

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960

The Big House in the North of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878–1960 Olwen Purdue (University College Dublin Press, Ä60hb/Ä28pb) ISBN 9781906359218 hb, 9781906359256 pb     Singing of […]

A history of the media in Ireland

A history of the media in Ireland Christopher Morash (Cambridge University Press, £45) ISBN 9780521843928   The Revd Alexander R. C. Dallas was convinced that the second coming of Christ […]