Nick Maxwell By Lar Joye J.P. Duggan in his history of the Irish Army observed that in the 1930s sport was one of the cheaper means of keeping interest alive in the forces. In January 1933 the assistant chief of staff, General MacNeill, requested that an investigation be undertaken on how physical training was taught in the … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons Founded in 1731 as a philanthropic organisation and members’ club, the Dublin Society was established to stimulate economic activity in Ireland. In 1738 it introduced a grant scheme funded by its own members. The first premiums were awarded in 1740 and continued annually. In 1761 the Irish parliament granted the Society £12,000 … Read more
MONAGHAN, CO. MONAGHAN By Damian Murphy Monaghan town occupies a fertile tract in the north of the county and, encircled by small hills, takes its name from Muineachán, meaning ‘a place full of moneys or drums’. The development of the county town and the improvement of its economy were actively pursued in the late eighteenth … Read more
Anthony Coughlan responds to Conor McCabe’s article, ‘Greaves, Connolly and the British Army’ (Platform, HI 33.3, May/June ’25). Conor McCabe’s criticism of Desmond Greaves’s account of James Connolly’s British Army service as a teenager is much ado about nothing much. In doing research in the 1950s for The life and times of James Connolly, Greaves … Read more
Sir,—I am writing to draw the attention of your readers, and especially your contributors, to a serious problem. Recently The Atlantic magazine conducted an investigation into the activities of Meta, the social media company, and how it built up its database of texts to train its flagship AI model, Llama 3. This is used not … Read more