Nick Maxwell By Eamonn O’Keeffe The Soldiers and Chiefs exhibition in Dublin’s Collins Barracks houses a polychromatic uniform of the Kilkenny Militia with a provenance no less colourful. Saved by an antiquarian from the ignominious fate of adorning a garden scarecrow, it is a striking testament to the remarkable crescendo of martial music in Ireland prompted by … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons Between 1556 and 1622 the English State commenced a series of plantations to colonise Ireland. What started under the Tudors as a reform option became the predominant policy under James I. We can use the published Patent Rolls to trace what land was transferred and to whom. Searching for land grants in … Read more
By Maria Luddy I have been researching Irish history for over 40 years and have never tired of visiting archives, talking to archivists, searching catalogues, locating material on current interests and looking for inspiration in previously unknown sources for what I might study next. The last twenty years or so have seen enormous changes in … Read more
BY DONAL FALLON A REVOLUTION IN PROFILES Royal Irish Academy bursaries facilitated many interesting projects across the island during the ‘decade of centenaries’, including Brian Hanley’s podcast, Dirty war in Dublin, and Mary O’Mahony’s project around the 1920 republican hunger strikes in Cork. Aidan Doyle’s project, A revolution in profiles, is a free online dictionary … Read more
Sir,—Further to Tim Carey’s article on cartoonist Alan Reeve (HI 32.1, Jan./Feb. 2024), the catalogue of the National Library of New Zealand includes among the Reeve papers an item with restricted viewing. This is a collection of 29 erotic cartoons, comprising ‘5 pencil, 1 watercolour and 23 ink cartoons drawn on paper of various sizes … Read more