Sir,—Joseph E.A. Connell Jr writes (100 Years Ago, HI 29.6, Nov./Dec. 2021): ‘Later de Valera told the Dáil “now I would like everybody clearly to understand that the plenipotentiaries went […]
Read More →Sir,—‘On This Day’ in the last issue (HI 30.1, Jan./Feb. 2022) omits the worst modern sea tragedy in home waters on 31 January 1953. In the early afternoon the passenger […]
Read More →Sir,—I think your editorial (HI 30.1, Jan./Feb. 2022) somewhat misses the point regarding opinion polls. I think that a united Ireland may well come in the not-too-distant future, but it […]
Read More →BY TONY CANAVAN A SKELETAL MYSTERY The skeletal remains of six people found at the site of Nancy Spain’s pub in Cork city have presented a mystery. The ‘Barrack Street […]
Read More →BY AODHÁN CREALEY MARCH 06/1836 The Siege of the Alamo ended when the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna overran the former Franciscan mission near San Antonio, Texas, […]
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