By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr During the Easter Rising, the 5th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers, under the command of Cmdt Thomas Ashe, carried out a series of raids and […]

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Earliest Theobald Wolfe Tone manuscripts (1783) recently discovered. By Sylvie Kleinman When Theobald Wolfe Tone’s son William published his father’s papers as the Life in 1826, he admitted suppressing ‘the […]

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The Cork Fatality Register for the War of Independence. By Andy Bielenberg This multi-year research project has recently been made available on the website theirishrevolution.ie. It has been researched and […]

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Sir,—The May/June issue (HI 25.3) was of particular interest to Leitrim enthusiasts with Brendan Scott’s article on ‘The making of the Book of Fenagh’. In addition, Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, […]

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BY AODHÁN CREALEY SEPTEMBER 21/1832 Sir Walter Scott (61), historical novelist, playwright, poet and antiquary, died from cholera. When Scott made his first and only visit to Ireland, a month-long […]

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