Nick Maxwell Following the Relief Act of 1793, the Catholics of Ireland began to erect churches of architectural pretension. In that year in Dublin work started on St Teresa’s, Clarendon Street. Outside Dublin three fine new churches were erected in the 1790s: Waterford Cathedral; … Read more
Sir, —Col. John Terence O’Neill is entirely right in his observations onDavid O’Donoghue’s book about events in Jadotville, Congo, in September1961 (Reviews, HI 14.4, July/August 2006). Though even the barestknowledge of the Jadotville affair raises questions, anythingapproaching rational and/or informed discussion has long and famouslybeen taboo. However, my new book, Heroes of Jadotville: the soldiers’story, … Read more
Sirs, —As a unionist who has stuck with History Ireland since its inception, I, like Eamon Ross (‘Letters’, HI 14.1, Jan./Feb. 2006), have concerns about the increasingly republican tone of the magazine. So it will not be a great surprise that I find the letter by Peter Atkins (HI 14.3, May/June 2006) to be amazingly … Read more
In 1803 the North was very much the dog that didn’t bark. Robert Emmet’s verdict on the Dublin insurrection—‘there was failure in all: plan, preparation and men’—applied to an even greater extent to events in Ulster. The attempt to raise the North produced no battles, or even skirmishes; in fact, probably not a single shot … Read more
Controversial issues in Anglo-Irish relations 1910–21 Cornelius O’Leary and Patrick Maume (Four Courts Press, ?45) ISBN 1851826572 The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic thaw in Anglo-Irish relations following the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985—giving Dublin an entrenched role in the North—and the intense cooperation between the two governments that underlay the 1998 Good Friday … Read more