Nick Maxwell Cúchulainn at the K Club? For those of us who are parents, this time of year is forever associated with that bitter-sweet experience of seeing our offspring head off to a new year in school, college or university (especially if it is for the first time). A vague feeling of melancholy is tempered by the … Read more
Sir ,—Brendan Bradshaw’s interview technique in relation to Tim Pat Coogan (HI 12.2, Summer 2004) was anodyne in the extreme. The nationally minded renowned academic Professor Bradshaw afforded the green light to Mr Coogan in every sense of the word, allowing him to propagate, unchallenged, his Gaedhil distorted nationalist image of Irish history. Mr … Read more
Sir, —I am very grateful for your encouraging review of County Wexfordin the Rare Oul’ Times No. 4 (Wexford and the South-East c. 1910–1924)(‘Bookworm’, HI 14.3, May/June 2006). It is important, however, to addthat the film and stage actor Stanley Holloway was included since hewas a junior officer in the British Army at Enniscorthy when … Read more
Sir, —As current Head of the School of History and Anthropology atQueen’s I am happy to reassure Eoin Dillon (‘Platform’, HI 14.4,July/August 2006) that African history is far from defunct in Belfast.We have already appointed a lecturer in African history (Dr RobertBlyth) to fill the gap left by the tragic death of Martin Lynn in … Read more
Following the Relief Act of 1793, the Catholics of Ireland began to erect churches of architectural pretension. In that year in Dublin work started on St Teresa’s, Clarendon Street. Outside Dublin three fine new churches were erected in the 1790s: Waterford Cathedral; … Read more