Nick Maxwell An assessment of the character and career of an atypical advocate of English rule in late Tudor and early Stuart Ireland By Joseph Mannion Intriguingly described by seventeenth-century churchman and historian Thomas Fuller as ‘a mere [pure] Irish man, but good Protestant’, Sir Francis Shane’s life and career in late Tudor and early Stuart Ireland … Read more
In a victorious encounter with Irish rebels in March 1600, Francis Shane is credited with having slain fourteen of the enemy with his own hand. In recognition of this service, the ‘old and very good servant to the queen’ was knighted by Lord Deputy Mountjoy on 6 April 1600 in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. … Read more
A fine representative of a generation of historians who laboured to enable today’s Ireland to engage honestly and maturely with its past in its multiple dimensions By Dan Mulhall The editor of History Ireland asked me to contribute an appreciation of the historian Ronan Fanning, who died on 18 January, because he was aware of … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN A timely return A remnant of a 1916 Tricolour has been donated to Glasnevin Trust. The piece of the flag was handed over by the chief minister of the island of Jersey, having been donated by David Blake, great-grandson of Jersey native John Le Provost, a member of the Jersey ‘pals battalion’ … Read more
1959 During the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya, eleven insurgent detainees were clubbed to death in the Hola detention camp. A further 77 sustained serious injuries. 1977 Brian Faulkner (56), last prime minister of Northern Ireland (March 1971–March 1972), was killed in a hunting accident, two days after his reception into … Read more