Assisted Famine emigration from Clones

Sir,—I am compiling information for a future publication and would be grateful for any information from readers on families that were assisted in emigrating from the Clones Estate during the […]

Neutrality

Sir,—Brendan Ó Cathaoir wondered in his letter (HI 21.6, Nov./Dec. 2013, ‘Britain’s offer on unity: missed opportunity?’) whether a more secure statesman than de Valera would at least have explored […]

Arthur Griffith

A Chara,—Dermot McMonagle in his review of Ronan Fanning’s Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910–1922 (HI 21.6, Nov./Dec. 2013) correctly to my mind questions Fanning’s statement that Arthur […]

David Fitzpatrick on ‘ethnic cleansing’

Sir,—Niall Meehan (HI 21.6, Nov./Dec. 2103, letters) takes me to task for unfairly contributing to the ‘denigration’ of republican revolutionaries, through the performance of a spoof ballad expressing sectarian attitudes […]

A good heritage/ tourism story getting in the way of historical facts?

In late September 2013 a number of flags appeared on the towers of the longest town walls in the Republic of Ireland. The flags carry the image of a typical […]