O’Clery descendants

Sir,—Would a History Ireland reader kindly enlighten me? I seek additional information about possible descendants of the literary O’Clerys of Donegal. A 16 January 1847 obituary in the Drogheda Argus […]

Date of James Stephens’s death

Sir,—In your ‘On this day’ column (HI 19.2, March/April 2011) it was stated that James Stephens, the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, died on 29 April 1901. In fact […]

Robert Monteith, 6 Palmerston Place

Sir,—On reading an account of Robert Monteith, commander of Casement’s Irish Brigade in Germany during the First World War, a detail caught my eye. As a consequence of his political […]

Drogheda fire service and the Belfast blitz

Sir,—The article ‘When Dublin responded to blitzed Belfast’s Mayday’ (HI 19.3, May/June 2011) coincided with a commemoration of the event held in Drogheda on 15 May. The mayor of Drogheda, […]

Boucicault and Lincoln

Sir,—Eamon O’Flaherty’s review of Dion Boucicault’s Arrah-na-Pogue (HI 19.2, March/April 2011) notes that Boucicault made a huge impact on the theatre in mid-nineteenth-century New York and London. It should also […]