‘Women of the pave’: prostitution in Ireland

Thousands of women working as prostitutes roamed the streets of the towns and cities of Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there was a common belief that […]

Blue Hussars

Sir, —I have a little footnote to add to your article on the Eucharistic Congress (HI 15.6, Nov./Dec. 2007). At the time, the country was in severe financial trouble and […]

‘A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People’?

Sir, —The errors in Tony Canavan’s piece on the vandalised painting at Stormont (‘A papist painting for a Protestant parliament?’, HI 16.1, Jan./Feb. 2008) lead me to wonder whether he […]

Coolacrease and ethnic cleansing

Sir, —I think that Dr Hanley in his critique of the ‘Killings at Coolacrease’ programme protests too much when he writes that talk of ‘ethnic cleansing . . . should […]

Adolf Mahr

A Chara, —The last sentence of Michael Gibbons’s review of Dublin NaziNo. 1: the life of Adolf Mahr (HI 15.5, Sept./Oct. 2007) was notsupported by a reading of the book. […]