Michael Donnellan and Adolf Hitler

Sir, —I wish to point out that R. M. Douglas has his facts a bit mixedup in his article ‘Ailtirí na hAiséirighe: Ireland’s fascist New Order’(HI 17.5, Sept./Oct. 2009), where […]

Captain O’Shea and the Fenians

Sir   —Myles Dungan’s article on Captain O’Shea and the Fenians contains interesting information about politics in Clare, but he is surely misinterpreting the situation in speaking of a ‘sustained […]

Belfast Boys: how Unionists and Nationalists fought and died together in the First World War

Richard S. Grayson (Continuum Books, £25) ISBN 9781847250087   Richard Grayson’s Belfast Boys is the latest addition to a small but growing number of popular and academic books on the […]

Judging Lemass: the measure of the man

Tom Garvin (Royal Irish Academy, E30) ISBN 9781904890577   Tom Garvin opens his introduction to this book with the truthful statement that ‘Seán Lemass is commonly seen as the architect […]

England and the 1641 Irish rebellion

Cope (Boydell Press, £50) ISBN 9781843834687   The outbreak of the 1641 rebellion posed two related problems for the English administration in Ireland. First and foremost, the lords justices and […]