Sir,—Myattention was drawn to the photograph on page five of the last issue(HI vol.9, no.1, Spring 2001), which accompanied the short article ‘TheBritish Offer to End Partition, June 1940’. As […]
Read More →Peter Pearson’s book is perhaps the best architectural history of Dublin since Maurice Craig’s Dublin 1660-1860. It presents an area by area account of the growth and development of the […]
Read More →The cries of despair and outrage from the tourist sector following the current closure of Newgrange, Cashel, etc. because of foot-and-mouth disease restrictions clearly shows the extent to which the […]
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Read More →Reading these histories of Ireland, I could not help wondering who they were written for. The writers’ fellow historians? Hardly! They know too much already to be interested in a […]
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