Nick Maxwell By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 18 April 1918 the Hon. Laurence O’Neill, lord mayor of Dublin, convened a national conference in the Mansion House. All sections of ‘nationalist’ opinion were to form the ‘National Cabinet’. The Irish Parliamentary Party was represented by Joe Devlin and John Dillon, Sinn Féin by Éamon de Valera and … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 10/1863 Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson (39), Confederate general in the American Civil War (1860–5), died from wounds inflicted by his own troops when they mistakenly shot him during a reconnaissance mission near Chancellorsville eight days previously. Formerly a professor at the Virginia Military Institute, Jackson earned his sobriquet for his dogged … Read more
By Fergal Browne This year marks the 220th anniversary of the 1798 United Irishmen’s Rebellion and the Battles of Monasterevin and Prosperous. On the weekend of 19–20 May 2018, re-enactments of the Battle of Monasterevin will be held in that town. On Sunday 27 May the community of Prosperous, Co. Kildare, will come together to … Read more
It is deeply ironic that in this ‘decade of commemorations’ the marking of a more recent one—the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement—has been relatively muted. This is in marked contrast to the self-congratulation and back-slapping of the same anniversary ten years ago. Of course, that was before the banking collapse of 2008 and … Read more
Sir,—The last few months of 2017 witnessed the passing of two giants of Irish historiography. Donnchadh Ó Corráin—interviewed in the last issue (HI 26.1, Jan./Feb. 2018)—died in Cork on 25 October, and then on New Year’s Eve came news that Francis John Byrne, another colossus of early Irish history, had died on the previous day. … Read more