Nick Maxwell RECOVERING THE ‘HIDDEN HISTORY’ OF AN ÉMIGRÉ COMMUNITY By Michael Brabazon Petit, Casinan, Visard, Douepurty, Petin, Arry, Tallon—the French names stood out in sharp relief against the familiar Nolans, O’Connors, Mellets and Gallaghers. The more I looked, the more I found: Royan, Callary, Pordon, Byenn, Caffel, Mossily. I was looking for my great-great-great-grandmother, Leuce Teat, … Read more
THE IRISH CONTEXT OF A SCOTTISH DISASTER By Simon Egan On 9 September 1513 the Scots suffered one of their most catastrophic military defeats. At Flodden field an army of 30,000 men under the command of James IV of Scotland was decimated by a smaller English force led by Thomas Howard (d. 1554), earl of … Read more
By Thomas O’Loughlin On 9 September there fell the centenary of Tom Kettle’s death at Ginchy ‘on the Somme’. Kettle was, among other things, a poet, a lawyer, a member of parliament and an academic: just the sort of person that any new state needs to provide management and leadership. Then we think again of … Read more
Sir,—D.R. O’Connor Lysaght writes (HI 24.4, July/August 2016) that my ‘interesting article’ on Arthur Griffith and Jews ‘is marred by an implicit assumption that because its subject supported Zionism he could not have been an anti-Semite’. The problem with ‘implicit assumptions’ is that they are in the eye of the beholder. In fact I assume … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN Time lost With all the attention on the centenaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme, some other centenaries of Irish interest have been overlooked. For example, 100 years ago Ireland abandoned Dublin Mean Time and adopted Greenwich Mean Time. It seems that the British government decided to use … Read more