Nick Maxwell Charles Sherwood Stratton was born in Connecticut in 1838 or 1839. He had stopped growing at seven months old (although some reports suggest at the age of two). Unusually, he was perfectly proportioned, both as a child and as a man, and this was part of his attraction. It seems that Stratton suffered from hypochondroplasia, … Read more
Outside of Wexford, Carlow was one of the biggest centres of rebel activity in Leinster in 1798, and tales of the rebellion and its suppression at a local level are still emerging. The story of Revd Robert Rochfort (1775–1811) of Clogrennane, Co. Carlow, is a case in point. An investigation into his life and early … Read more
Born in 1775, Rochfort was part of the seventeenth generation to descend from the original de Rochefort settlers and, as such, enjoyed an impressive pedigree in the Anglo-Irish élite. He was named after his great-grandfather, the Hon. Robert Rochfort, speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and his grandfather, John (close friend and legal executor … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20131226-HistoryIrelandShow-032.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Belfast City Hall, Tues 10 December 6pm Lar Joye, Michael Laffan, Timothy Bowman, Philip Orr
The end of year review is a staple of the newspaper industry. While History Ireland isn’t a newspaper, there seemed no reason not to attempt something similar. Given the nature of the magazine, the obvious thing to do was to glance back to the past. So we thought: why not look at what was in … Read more