JFK assassination

Sir,   —In his rather superficial discussion of the JFK assassination in the last issue (HI 11.4, Winter 2003), Mel Ayton matches the wilder speculations of the conspiracy theorists with […]

New York draft riots 1863

Sir, —Jim Jordan (Letters, HI 11.4, Winter 2003) has provided useful background on the ethnic conflicts that partly lay behind the New York draft riots (see my article in HI […]

Bookworm

They say that the only thing worse than a bad review is no review at all. Unfortunately, where History Ireland is concerned, this has been the case with many of […]

Defenders of the Union: a survey of British and Irish unionism since 1801

D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds) (Routledge, £17) ISBN 0415174228 The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the constitutional and political nature of the United Kingdom. More […]

The IRA at war 1916–1923

Peter Hart (Oxford University Press, £25) ISBN 0199252580 Tom Barry: IRA freedom fighter Meda Ryan (Mercier Press, £30) ISBN 1856354253     Two new books will stimulate fresh interest and […]