Nick Maxwell By Mark Holan American photographer and antiquarian Wallace Nutting drove through all 32 counties of Ireland in the summer of 1925, taking some 700 images of the country. His travels resulted in the photobook Ireland beautiful, which was published in time for Christmas gift-giving. It featured 304 of Nutting’s half-tone engravings of Irish landscapes—only six … Read more
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc One spring morning in 1923 Rotha Lintorn-Orman, former head of the British Red Cross Motor School during the First World War, was weeding her kitchen garden in Somerset, England, when she was struck by an idea. She was an admirer of Mussolini and delighted in reading about his exploits in … Read more
By Anthony Barrett Over the winter months of 1922/3, by which time the Irish Civil War had devolved into a gruelling stalemate, the legendary and controversial IRA commander Tom Barry led a guerrilla campaign in Tipperary. His most prominent action was the capture and destruction of the National Army barracks at Carrick-on-Suir. In Green against … Read more
By John Gleeson When an eighteen-year-old Kerryman named John Sullivan arrived at a famous French military academy in La Flèche in 1785 to teach English and mathematics, few could have predicted the diverse and colourful life that was to follow. By 1793 Sullivan had sworn an oath of loyalty to the new French constitution and … Read more
By Stephen Griffin Irish émigrés are recorded in the Iberian peninsula from the sixteenth century onward, as noblemen and clergymen sought support from Habsburg Spain against the Tudor monarchy. Irishmen also served in the Spanish Low Countries during this time. Increased numbers of military exiles arrived in Spanish dominions following the Irish defeat in the … Read more