Retrospect

One of the best kept secrets of Irish history publishing is Retrospect,journal of the Irish History Students Association, which every yearpublishes the papers delivered at the annual IHSA conference. Thecurrent […]

Casement Colloquium

Sir Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish nationalist, has been the subject of two important new works by Angus Mitchell and Roger Sawyer. At first they worked together on Casement’s accounts […]

Northern Exposure: Irishmen and Scandinavia in the seventeenth century

The activities of Irish merchants,  students and above all mercenaries living and working in Catholic continental countries, especially France, Spain and Austria, have been well documented. However the histories of […]

The Mighty Quinn

EM:    Tell us about your background. DBQ:    My mother was from Cork and my father from Tyrone. I was born in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin in 1909, but until I […]

United Ireland & Young Ireland Meet

When Charles Hart (1824?-98), a Young Irelander from Dublin, was inWashington in March 1849 during a tour of the United States he took theopportunity to pay a visit to Matilda […]