Nick Maxwell

A chara,—I am researching the construction of two electricity stations in west Donegal in the 1950s and would be delighted if your readers could help me. Construction of the ESB Clady hydroelectric and the Meenacung turf station began around 1953–4 and both stations were commissioned in 1958. The general contractor for the Clady scheme was … Read more

Sir,—I am doing research on the dance halls in rural Ireland during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. My research will be based on people’s memories, and I would be very pleased to hear from any readers who attended dances during this period, remember them, or have any photographs taken at dances or perhaps clothes worn … Read more

Sir,—In contradiction to the letter of Dr Pat Walsh (HI 23.3, May/June 2015), it is quite plausible that Adolf Hitler did refer to the Armenians in remarks to senior officers in August 1939. While his words are not fully corroborated, there are good reasons to believe that the quotation is factually true. One of Hitler’s … Read more

Sir,—While I am delighted that Eoghan Ó hÁinle (Letters, HI 23.3, May/June 2015) was more attuned in his youth to the experience of the Irish in the First World War than I was myself, and while, as a culturally impoverished inhabitant of rural Ireland, I envy the fact that the Irish National War Memorial Garden … Read more

Sir,—Re joint remembrance of the 1916 Rising and the Battle of the Somme and the issue of imperial atrocities (Dr Tadhg Moloney, Letters, HI 23.3, May/June 2015). As late as the 1950s, thousands of Kenyan men were tortured, castrated with pliers or brutally flogged, sometimes to death, in British concentration camps in that country. As … Read more