Auxiliaries, not Black and Tans

Sir,—I may be your only subscriber in Norway, but I enjoy every issue of History Ireland. As a mathematician, I particularly enjoyed the article about Hamilton (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2016). […]

Wexford 1916

Sir,—May I be allowed to offer a gentle rebuke to Joseph E.A. Connell (Countdown to 2016) and the many other historians who promote the view that the 1916 Rising was […]

Foreword to The Great Famine

Sir,—The review (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2015) of the recent posthumous publication of The genesis of National Socialism by T. Desmond Williams, when recounting Williams’s career, states that ‘he co-wrote an […]

Mock Tudor?

Sir,—In your last issue (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2015, Sidelines) Tony Canavan states that ‘Henry VIII was a fat, adulterous heretic’. Is this an example of Mock Tudor?—Yours etc., NOEL YOUNG

Mary Kenny and the Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir,—Mary Kenny is right that there were women strongly opposed to serving on juries. Throughout the life of the 1937 Juries Act only two women applied to serve (they were […]