Nick Maxwell Tues–Thur Spirit of Mother Jones Festival, Firkin Crane, Maldron Hotel, Cork. Speakers: Padraig Yeates, Margaret Aspinall, Ken Fleming, Simon Cordery, Luke Dineen & Jer O’Leary. Enquiries: +353 (0)86 1651356/3196063, www.motherjonescork.com.
Sir,—I am writing to express my concern and shock at seeing my grandfather Einhart Kawerau listed in David O’Donoghue’s article ‘The Nazis in Irish Universities’ (HI 15.5, Sept./Oct. 2007, pp.12-13, https://historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-nazis-in-irish-universities/ While Dr O’Donoghue limits himself to listing him as a German student in Ireland, his article implies that Einhart Kawerau participated in the German … Read more
Tues–Thur Spirit of Mother Jones Festival, Firkin Crane, Maldron Hotel, Cork. Speakers: Padraig Yeates, Margaret Aspinall, Ken Fleming, Simon Cordery, Luke Dineen & Jer O’Leary. Enquiries: +353 (0)86 1651356/3196063, www.motherjonescork.com.
More on this controversy A chara,—Eve Morrison in (HI 20.6, Nov./Dec. 2012) states that I am ‘misreading’ Jack Hennessy’s Bureau of Military History statement. I suggest it is she who is ‘misreading’ Hennessy. While Hennessy does not put the name ‘a false surrender’ on what he witnessed at Kilmichael on that day he actually describes … Read more
More on Dunmanway controversy Dunmanwaymassacre, April 1922 John Desmond of Bandon draws attention (letters, HI 20.5, Sept./Oct. 2012) to the murder of the Coffey brothers on 14 February 1921 in Enniskeane by Essex Regiment soldiers, soon after that of Thomas Bradfield on 1 February 1921. An elderly Protestant farmer from Bandon, Bradfield had mistaken a … Read more