Nick Maxwell Sir,—Mary Kenny is right that there were women strongly opposed to serving on juries. Throughout the life of the 1937 Juries Act only two women applied to serve (they were objected to and did not serve). The morning after the judgement was announced in the Supreme Court, I received a phone call from a woman … Read more
Sir,—Dennis Kennedy’s critique of the Easter Rising and its commemoration (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2015, Platform) is as notable for what it omits as for what it contains. He blames the Rising for ‘the false and terrible beauty of violence’, yet he suppresses the fact that it was the Ulster Volunteer Force that brought the gun … Read more
This year is proving to be an important one for Irish History Online (www.irishhistoryonline.ie) and its associated network, the European Historical Bibliographies project (www.histbib.eu). A milestone has been reached with the publication of the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on European Historical Bibliographies. This collection, entitled Historical bibliography as an essential source for historiography … Read more
THE IRISH STATE HAS CHOSEN TO COMMENCE ITS PROGRAMME TO COMMEMORATE THE 1916 RISING ON THE ONLY OCCASION THAT MAKES HISTORICAL SENSE. By Gabriel Doherty While the state ceremony that was held in Glasnevin cemetery on 1 August 2015 to mark the centenary of the burial of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa received a broadly positive response, … Read more
By Tony Canavan The truth of a local story about the 1588 Spanish Armada is soon to be scientifically tested when archaeologists use the latest technology to examine remains in St Cuthbert’s graveyard near Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim. This iconic castle is already steeped in legend, but one story that persists is that 200 sailors … Read more