Sir,—I refer to the seminar review, ‘Machnamh: Memory, History and Imagination’, by Colum Kenny (HI 31.1, Jan./Feb. 2023). Dr Kenny makes the following assertion in the second-last paragraph of his […]
Read More →Sir,—Fiona Brennan’s very interesting article on Sigerson Clifford’s play about Daniel O’Connell, The Great Pacificator (HI 31.1, Jan./Feb. 20023, What’s On Stage), notes that in the first Dublin production (1947) […]
Read More →Sir,—Richard Pine’s letter (HI 30.5, Sept./Oct. 2022), responding to my article (HI 30.4, July/Aug. 2022, ‘Bram Stoker’s “Great Game”?’), usefully summarises the nineteenth-century history of the term ‘the Great Game’—a […]
Read More →Sir,—Tom Carew asks (HI 30.6, Nov./Dec. 2022, Letters) whether Canadians regard the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as a military force. It was a military force and would still be […]
Read More →Sir,—Simon Kingston of the West Cork History Festival has made a disturbing statement in a History Ireland Hedge School (https://www.historyireland.com/hedge-schools/) on the TG4 documentary Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in […]
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