Nick Maxwell Sir,—In reply to Stephen Brown’s letter (HI 29.5, Sept./Oct. 2021), there has indeed been a ‘trend to dismiss the Civil War and to downplay it’. However, this is a trend in which Mr Brown himself appears also somewhat complicit. In restricting his criticism to the treatment of the Civil War within the ‘decade of centenaries’ … Read more
Sir,—On behalf of the Fellowship of Messines Association I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your recent editorials and your observations and positive comments on the Truth Recovery Process (TRP) as a means of addressing the legacy of our violent past. As an organisation made up of individuals from a broad … Read more
Sir,—To date I have written four books about Oliver Cromwell: Cromwell at Drogheda (Broin Print, 1993); Cromwell: an honourable enemy (Brandon Books, 1999); Cromwell was framed (Chronos Books, 2014); and The Protector: the fall and rise of Oliver Cromwell (Top Hat Books, 2022), the latter being a fictional biography. Recently (HI 29.5, Sept./Oct. 2021, Big … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN Tom Clarke’s tobacconist shopfront to be restored The government has provided €50,000 for the conservation and restoration of 55 Amiens Street, Dublin, once home to Tom Clarke, signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. Clarke operated a tobacconist’s shop from the building from 1908 to 1911. The funding is being made available under the … Read more
For readers planning to attend or to tune into Staging the Treaty, Theo Dorgan’s restaging of the Treaty Debates (see pp 6–7), a spoiler alert—it ends badly. Within six months its terms would provoke a bitter civil war in what was to become the Irish Free State, and its other malign outcome—partition—is still with us … Read more