Letter 2 – The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?

Sir,—Your article ‘The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?’ (HI 24.2, March/April 2016)insiststhat there is an urgent need to refute a pervasive belief that Cromwellian-era Irish prisonersofwar and indentured […]

The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?

Sir,—This article in your March/April issue (HI 24.2, 2016) asked more questions than it answered and contradicted itself on many occasions. I understand that the term ‘indentured servitude’ relates to […]

Arthur Griffith

Sir,—Colum Kenny’s interesting article on Arthur Griffith (HI 24.3, May/June 2016) is marred by an implicit assumption that because its subject supported Zionism he could not have been an anti-Semite. […]

Beyond the Liffey and the Somme: Irish soldiers at the Tigris River, 1916

Sir,—In his article in your March/April issue (HI 24.2, pp 34–5)Mark Phelanstated that ‘the Connaught Rangers regiment had a colourful history, fighting with distinction at Waterloo and thereafter policing the […]

The ‘Castle Document’

Sir,—In his timely article on the ‘Castle Document’ (HI 24.2, Mar./Apr. 2016, p.66), Joseph E.A. Connell Jr did not mention more direct evidence about its source.I have extensively researched the […]