Nick Maxwell The map is in the archival collection of the library at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and has several additional elements, including the coats of arms of several families. It has been an object of interest and fascination for many, including James Joyce. James Hardiman in his History of Galway (1820) claimed that the map … Read more
In an article about Galway City, published in 1912 by the Trieste newspaper Il Piccolo della Sera, James Joyce wrote of the map: ‘The strangest and most interesting historical document in the city archives is the map of the city made for the Duke of Lorraine in the seventeenth century . . . The margins … Read more
Sir—A neighbour, a good friend of mine, called into me the other day to tell me that there is a photo of my mother and father in the latest edition of History Ireland, which I might like to see. And yes, indeed, I was very interested in looking at the excellent photograph of Elgie Gillespie … Read more
Sir,—It is normal for national historians, in the narration of the history of their nation, to mention or recount, in due place, the intrusion, progress and influence of a foreign ideology or world-view. Irish national historians have done this, successively, in the cases of the arrival and impact of Christianity, the Anglo-Norman invasion, Continental Catholicism, … Read more
Sir,—Twice now Prof. Murphy has used a clipped quote from a poem of Tomás Rua Ó Suilleabháin to state that the poet wished to subject the Protestant community to ‘ethnic cleansing’ (Letters, HI 20.5, Sept./Oct. 2012, and HI 21.1, Jan./Feb. 2013). Prof. Murphy quotes the second-last line of the poem as evidence—‘go nglanfar cruinn as … Read more