From the Editor…

Value for money? One of the suggestions most frequently made to me over the years has been: why don’t you compile an index of the magazine? Great idea, but neither […]

‘Love Ulster’ march

Sirs, —As a unionist who has stuck with History Ireland since its inception, I, like Eamon Ross (‘Letters’, HI 14.1, Jan./Feb. 2006), have concerns about the increasingly republican tone of […]

Irishmen on the Terra Nova and Nimrod

Sir, —Your issue of Jan./Feb. 2006 contained a letter from A. J. Lenehanin which he discussed the number of Irishmen serving with Capt. R. F.Scott’s 1910 Terra Nova expedition to […]

Mars and Johann Hieronymus Schroeter

Sir, —The article on Charles Edward Burton (HI 14.1, Jan./Feb. 2006) wasvery interesting and widened my knowledge of the history of astronomy.Although the Italian Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed in 1880 to […]

Paddy Butner: the boy in the GPO, 1916

‘Many people have claimed to be him. His real name was Paddy Butner. He was 9 years old’ (Desmond Ryan). Sir, —I am compiling information in order to write a […]