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Nick Maxwell

Key to Lavery painting

Sir,—I read with great interest Angus Mitchell’s article on Sir John Lavery’s High Treason (HI 18.5, Sept./Oct. 2010). The key to the painting identifies the solemn man seated next to Casement in the dock simply as ‘Dowling’. Who is this man? Certainly this is not the same Dowling of Casement’s Irish Brigade who landed in … Read more

Categories 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2010), Letters, Revolutionary Period 1912-23, Volume 18

The pope’s battalions

Sir,—I wish to respond to your comment on the Vatican in your last editorial (HI 18.5, Sept./Oct. 2010), beginning with the implicit criticism of it for being secular and institutional, and for exercising temporal powers. It is essential for it to be all three of those things, since it exists in the temporal world as … Read more

Categories 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2010), Letters, Volume 18

Irish History online

Irish History Online (IHO) is a fully searchable electronic bibliography of publications on Irish history, which is making it much easier to discover what has been published on particular topics in Irish history. This free online resource, based in the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare (principal investigator: Professor Jackie Hill), was set up … Read more

Categories 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 5 (Sep/Oct 2007), News, Volume 15

Won both singles and doubles

The Dubliner won both of his matches in the group stage of the singles competition, although it may seem curious that one of the rubbers was a best-of-five-set affair, while the other was best-of-three. This was due to the cold and wet weather in Athens that April, which curtailed the length of the contests. The … Read more

Categories 20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 4 (July/August 2012), Volume 20

Patrick D’Arcy and Eileen Gray

Sir,—In her article ‘A dynamic Irishman in Paris: Patrick d’Arcy, 1725–79’ (HI 18.2, March/April 2010), Mary Stratton Ryan quotes an 1845 article from the Freeman’s Journal to the effect that ‘A mason employed at the ancient chapel of St Philip du Roule has discovered a leaden coffin of ancient form [inscribed with the name of … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Issue 6 (Nov/Dec 2010), Letters, Volume 18
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