Dev, Ulster & the Commonwealth

Sir, —In your entertainingeditorial on the perils of putting names to places in Ireland, you saythat nationalists find obnoxious the use of ‘Ulster’ for NorthernIreland (‘Up the Republic/Commonwealth!’, HI 17.3, […]

Feeney on the NILP

Sir,   —Although delighted to see my book A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party: democratic socialism and sectarianism reviewed in the last issue (HI 17.4, July/August 2009), permit […]

Mayor John Lindsay

Sir, —Tara Keenan-Thomson’s description (HI 17.4, July/Aug. 2009) of New York’s Mayor John Lindsay as ‘an American Republican’ strikes an odd note, particularly in the context of an essay that […]

Fianna Éireann banner

Sir, —I have recently returned from a visit to the Imperial War Museumin London. The display on the Home Front during the 1914–18 warincluded items relating to the Easter Rising. […]

No ‘delighted policemen’ at Burntollet?

Sir,   —It is unfortunate that Paul Bew’s article in the last issue (HI17.4, July/Aug. 2009) should be entitled ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’.In it he says that, unlike Bernadette […]