Nick Maxwell

Sir,—Sylvie Kleinman’s review of Lyric FM’s Recalling the Layers (HI 33.5, Sept./Oct. 2025) piqued my interest. I was curious to hear how the subject of the Marshalsea debtors’ prison was presented by Patricia Barker against the recent exhibition at the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA), A Form of Justice: The Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin (4 June–26 … Read more

Sir,—Two (very) small corrections in your last issue (HI 33.6, Nov./Dec. 2025). Re Donal Fallon’s very fine item (p. 11), John Devoy’s chair was really not ‘return[ed]’ to Kildare this year. This was its first journey there, having been bought in New York City around 1920. Re Angeline O’Neill’s equally fine and longer piece (pp … Read more

Sir,—Brian Hanley has written a lively review of David McCullagh’s recent two-part, point-of-view RTÉ documentary, Dev: Rise and Rule (HI 33.6, Nov./Dec. 2025). In it he gives Dev his due, but it left me no wiser as to what David was getting at in the opening section of the first programme, widely promoted in advance … Read more

A chara,—Apropos Conor McCabe’s Platform piece, ‘Where, oh where is the evidence? Greaves, Connolly and the British Army’ (HI 33.3, May/June 2025): quite apart from the controversial question of Connolly’s military service, I was interested to see McCabe draw attention to the fact that Connolly had an older sister, Mary. Readers may be interested to … Read more