‘At Tubberneering and Ballyellis Full many a Hessian lay in his gore’ By Nicholas Dunne-Lynch The ballad Boolevogue, which celebrates the heroism of the Wexford rebels during the rebellion of […]
Read More →A newly discovered poem from County Offaly in the 1641 Rebellion. By Jane Maxwell Among a small cache of papers relating to the Digby family of Warwickshire, now in the […]
Read More →By Chris Chevallier The Bruce invasion was a major turning point in medieval Irish history, a calamity that seriously damaged English influence in Ireland until the Tudor Reconquest. At the […]
Read More →Loyalist and republican murals compared. By Bill Rolston In June 2019 there was a brief flurry of controversy regarding the political wall murals of Northern Ireland. It was started when […]
Read More →Sir—Might I respond to Rayner Lysaght’s latest critique (HI 27.4, May/June 2019, Letters) of my article ‘Was the War of Independence necessary?’ (HI 27.1, Jan./Feb. 2019)? As it was a […]
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