Samuel Lover (1797–1868)

Dublin was home to Samuel Lover until 1835, when he moved to London for better commissions for his miniature portraits. In 1846–7 he toured the United States with ‘Irish Evenings’ […]

When It Was Dark

When It Was Dark (1903) was the ‘most original and daring novel of the century’, its publishers claimed, the grandiosity of the statement undermined by the fact that the century […]

Hallie Erminie Rives

Although largely forgotten today, Hallie Erminie Rives was one of the most popular writers in early twentieth-century America, catapulted to literary fame by A Furnace of Earth in 1900. She […]

Franco-Irish forces

The remaining regiments of the old Irish Brigade of France were disbanded after the French Revolution in 1789, lost their distinctive red uniforms and were absorbed into the regular French […]

Crown forces

The French fleet had slipped past the principal Royal Navy squadron blockading Brest, but their departure had not been unobserved. Earlier in December, Captain Sir Edward Pellow’s frigate squadron and […]