Nick Maxwell The Gough collection was catalogued as part of the 2015–16 research studentship, an annual position in the National Library organised in association with the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences. The Gough papers (MS 50,120) cover topics as diverse as detailed accounts of the various military campaigns in which Hugh Gough served, private family correspondence, drawings … Read more
Gough was proud to be an Irishman and when not serving overseas he settled in Ireland, where he owned significant landholdings by his death. Although he was serving in India at the time, he was aware of the horrific conditions occurring in Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s. He wrote to his son … Read more
By Joe Culley (Twitter: @TheRealCulls) In the 1930s Ernie O’Malley began conducting interviews with some of his former comrades from his revolutionary days. Initially the interviews were informal and were designed to help him prepare his memoirs. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, O’Malley intensified his research, travelling the country as a sort … Read more
By Lar Joye This is a 222-year-old admiral’s barge that originally belonged to the French frigate La Résolue, a flagship commanded by Rear Admiral Neilly as part of the fleet bringing a French army to invade Ireland at Bantry Bay in December 1796. Thirty French warships and fourteen transport ships sailed from Brest with … Read more
GERARD FARRELL Palgrave Macmillan €96 ISBN 9783319593623 Reviewed by James O’Neill James O’Neill is an independent heritage consultant based in Belfast. Perhaps it’s a coincidence, or maybe it’s the recent 400th anniversary of the start of the Ulster plantation, but there has been a recent influx of monographs and edited volumes examining that pivotal yet … Read more