James Byrne—‘a martyr to the sacred cause of liberty’

Sir,—I recently purchased the special issue of History Ireland, which featured some very interesting articles on the 1913 Lockout. I thought your readers might be interested in the story of […]

Helena Molony and revolutionary theatre

Sir,—I wish to congratulate History Ireland for its stellar special issue on the 1913 Lockout. The high quality of articles represents an admirable and appropriate tribute to the labour events […]

Einhart Kawerau not a Nazi

Sir,—I am writing to express my concern and shock at seeing my grandfather, Einhart Kawerau, listed in David O’Donoghue’s article ‘The Nazis in Irish universities’ (HI 15.5, Sept./Oct. 2007, pp […]

Neutrality: ‘the very essence of Irish independence’?

‘It rarely pays to get between a dog and a lamp-post’, remarked United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the virtues of neutrality. For Dante, ‘the hottest places in […]

The Bordeaux–Dublin letters, 1757: the voice of an Irish community abroad

In January 2011, while working at the British National Archives at Kew, Dr Tom Truxes (Glucksman Ireland House and NYU) discovered a fragile, dusty collection of documents that had been […]