Nick Maxwell By Maria Luddy I have been researching Irish history for over 40 years and have never tired of visiting archives, talking to archivists, searching catalogues, locating material on current interests and looking for inspiration in previously unknown sources for what I might study next. The last twenty years or so have seen enormous changes in … Read more
BY DONAL FALLON A REVOLUTION IN PROFILES Royal Irish Academy bursaries facilitated many interesting projects across the island during the ‘decade of centenaries’, including Brian Hanley’s podcast, Dirty war in Dublin, and Mary O’Mahony’s project around the 1920 republican hunger strikes in Cork. Aidan Doyle’s project, A revolution in profiles, is a free online dictionary … Read more
Sir,—Further to Tim Carey’s article on cartoonist Alan Reeve (HI 32.1, Jan./Feb. 2024), the catalogue of the National Library of New Zealand includes among the Reeve papers an item with restricted viewing. This is a collection of 29 erotic cartoons, comprising ‘5 pencil, 1 watercolour and 23 ink cartoons drawn on paper of various sizes … Read more
Sir,—Madeline O’Neill’s article on Colonel Maurice Moore (HI 32.1, Jan./Feb. 2024) was informative in the assessment of his work during the second Anglo-Boer War, but she seemed to elide the extent of his radical turn as the Home Rule crisis deepened in the build-up to the First World War. He was the most senior military … Read more
Sir,—Charles Lysaght’s article (HI 31.6, Nov./Dec. 2023) on the occupation of the Kildare Street Club in May 1922 by anti-Treaty forces reminded me of the experiences of my great-aunt, Jean Montgomery, in Trinity College shortly afterwards, though her problems came from the other side. Miss Montgomery, from County Antrim and an ardent unionist, was appointed … Read more