By John Miles La Trinidad Valencera of the Spanish Armada was in trouble. The ship weighed 1,000 tons and had a complement of 360 men. She was leaking badly and […]
Read More →By Éamonn Toland Charles Blount, the eighth Lord Mountjoy, was distraught. As commander of Queen Elizabeth’s forces in Ulster, he had ordered his troops to end the Nine Years’ War […]
Read More →Sir,—There appears to be an ever-growing trend to dismiss the Civil War and to downplay it within the ‘decade of centenaries’. In his letter, ‘The failings of past generations’ (HI […]
Read More →A chara,—My Platform piece (HI 28.4, July/August 2020) abridged an essay in Irish Studies Review that challenged revisionist claims to write value-free history. I then critiqued revisionism on its own […]
Read More →BY TONY CANAVAN Heroines being honoured in Belfast Belfast City Council is to erect statues of Winifred Carney and Mary Ann McCracken in the grounds of City Hall. Councillors unanimously […]
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