RMS Leinster

Sir,—The short piece by Joseph E.A. Connell Jr (HI 26.5, Sept./Oct. 2018, 100 Years Ago) on the sinking of the RMS Leinster on 10 October 1918, while it was sailing […]

Dairy processing not ‘exclusively cooperative’ after 1927

A chara,—The article by Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp concerning the 1919 dispute between Richard McEllistrim and the Ballymacelligott Co-operative Dairy Society (HI 26.4, July/August 2018) is rather wide of […]

‘An irregular junta’

Sir,—When Michael Collins accepted the gift of Dublin Castle from Lord Fitzalan on 14 January 1922 he was the finance minister of the Irish Republic, appointed by its parliament, Dáil […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley At the height of the Famine, an English Quaker and philanthropist, James Hack Tuke, visited Connemara to assist the stricken populace and witnessed its full horrors. So […]

Ghosts of the Somme

JONATHAN EVERSHED Notre Dame Press £43 ISBN 9780268103859 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In contemporary Ireland, many see commemoration of […]