Sir,—Understanding that HI can only list a selection of titles in the ‘further reading’ appended to feature articles, we nonetheless encourage some expansion for curious readers of Isadore Ryan’s article on the Irish in the Franco-Prussian War (HI 33.2, March/April 2025). Having, at the request of Janick Julienne, attempted to locate, so far unsuccessfully, an Irish birth record for that colourful ‘chancer’ MacAdaras, partially to confirm her suspicion that this was a ‘nom de guerre’ or pseudonym, may I recommend to readers Julienne’s various incisive publications flowing out of her archival research. These include her ‘General MacAdaras: an adventurer in the service of Irish revolutionaries in France’ in The Irish Sword (Summer 2003) and ‘The Irish in the Franco-Prussian War: hopes and disappointments’ in Genet-Rouffiac and Murphy (eds), Franco-Irish military connections 1590–1945 (Dublin, 2009). This was the English version of her paper given at a ground-breaking conference in Vincennes in 2007, reprised in French in a special France Irlande issue of the French military history journal Revue Historique des Armées (no. 253, 2008). This was richly illustrated, though not with the sharply satirical cartoon (above/below) located by Isadore Ryan, capturing the essence of what was MacAdaras. More recently Julienne published a full-length biography of Leonard, Un Irlandais à Paris: John Patrick Leonard, au coeur des relations franco-irlandaises 1814–1889 (2016), in a series created by the Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in Tallaght.—Yours etc.,
SYLVIE KLEINMAN