LE POER TOWER

Tower Hill, Portlaw, Co. Waterford By Damian Murphy The nineteenth-century fascination with Early Christian round towers prompted the repair of antiquities and the construction of facsimiles as monuments to Daniel […]

POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CITY

The misericords of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. By Charlotte Murphy St Mary’s Church of Ireland cathedral in Limerick possesses the only set of medieval choir-stalls to survive Ireland’s troubled past. […]

REDEEMING DEV, DAMNING GRIFFITH: PAKENHAM’S PEACE BY ORDEAL

By Colum Kenny Born in England in 1905, when Arthur Griffith first articulated his Sinn Féin policy, Frank Pakenham became the 7th Lord Longford in 1961. He grew up between […]

REVD NICHOLAS CALLAN

Sir,—In relation to your recent article on the nineteenth-century Maynooth scientist Revd Nicholas Callan (HI 30.1, Jan./Feb. 2022), your readers may be interested in a reference to him which I […]

‘WHEN C.J. HAUGHEY DROVE MAGGIE MAD’

Sir,—May I comment on the piece by Stephen Kelly (HI 30.2, March/April 2022)? It seems to me that throughout his political career Charles Haughey adhered to the Constitution enacted by […]