Nick Maxwell

by Michael Curwen    Almost 200 years ago my great-great-great-grandfather spent two months travelling round Ireland. His description of the journey was published in 1818 under the title Observations on the State of Ireland principally directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population; in a series of letters written on a tour through that country. I … Read more

Corkery remembered The restless energies of Daniel Corkery (1878-1964), author of The Hidden Ireland, friend of Terence MacSwiney, scourge of Sean Ó Faoláin and Frank O’Connor, and champion of the Gael, the Church, the language, and the land, seem a little unfashionable in the Ireland of today. So, too, do the charms of the village of … Read more

Ireland 1848    It has been noted as a case of histor­ical negligence that no photographs were taken of the Great Irish Famine even though early photographers had the means. Those given to conspiracy theories suggest that photographs of the starving and the dead were taken but were such an affront to Victorian sensibilities and … Read more

Happy birthday! As History Ireland begins its fifth year of publication, down in Tipperary a local history journal celebrates ten years of existence. The 1997 Tipperary Historical Journal will be a special tenth anniversary number, with a comprehensive forty-page survey of the county’s historiography by local historian Denis Marnane. As usual, the journal specialises in … Read more