BRIAN NELSON—BRITAIN’S AGENT

A response to Ian S. Wood’s ‘Brian Nelson—the rise and fall of a double agent’ (HI 31.2, March/April 2023). By Margaret Urwin If Ian S. Wood wished to portray the […]

HOSTING ‘THE TOOLS OF TITO’—IRELAND V. YUGOSLAVIA, 19 OCTOBER 1955

By James Quinn When in 1950 and 1952 the Yugoslav FA offered to bring its highly rated football team to Dublin, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) showed an uncharacteristic […]

ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER—SCIENTIST, DUBLINER … AND MORE

By Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock On the cusp of 1940, Ireland was suffering from economic hardship, especially evident in the tenements of the urban poor in Dublin and Cork. […]

THE AMERICAN HOUSES, 1–6 ANNAVILLE, CORK

By Damian Murphy Having inherited a plot of ground on the Mardyke in the western suburbs of Cork from her father, Samuel Thomas, Anne Buckley and her building contractor husband, […]

JAMES McLOUGHLIN—FROM BRITISH ARMY GUNNER TO DIRECTOR OF ARTILLERY IN THE IRISH DEFENCE FORCES

By Mark McLaughlin The ending of the Irish Civil War with the order to ‘dump arms’ in May 1923 allowed the new National Army of the Irish Free State to […]