Nick Maxwell BY DONAL FALLON ALEXANDER ECTOR ORR REMEMBERED A new plaque has been unveiled in Strabane in honour of Alexander Ector Orr (1831–1914). Described by the chairman of the Ulster History Circle as the ‘father of the New York subway’, Orr was a successful emigrant from Ireland who went on to play a leading role in … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY NOVEMBER 25/1956 Francis McCullagh (82), war correspondent, died. A thirst for adventure and a fascination with international affairs brought McCullagh to most of the major wars of his day. Fluent in a number of languages, including Russian and Japanese, he won international acclaim for his reports on Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution. … Read more
By Brian Smyth In October 2024 a plaque was unveiled in Wexford to Arthur Leared, best remembered for the invention of the biaural (using two ears) stethoscope in 1851. He also published several important medical papers and books. He travelled extensively and many of his travel books are still in print. Arthur Leared was born … Read more
By Lar Joye The Military History Society of Ireland was founded in 1949 with the objective of studying warfare in Ireland and Irish men and women in war (since enlarged to include the general study of military history). Initially its period of study was confined to the pre-twentieth-century period, but this has gradually expanded to … Read more
On this, the 50th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Soviet Union in 1974 (See ‘Our man in Moscow’, HI 32.5, Sept./Oct. 2024, pp 48–51, and https://historyireland.com/hedge-schools/), it is timely to reflect on the ongoing war in Ukraine. At the outset, quite rightly, Ireland stood with Ukraine by diplomatically condemning … Read more