Sir, —I am researching the life of John Roche (1848–1914), whorepresented Galway East as a Nationalist MP from 1890 until his death.He was a leading member of the Plan of Campaign in 1886 and a closecolleague of John Dillon. I am looking for any letters or othermaterial written by him (or possibly written to him … Read more
The Orange Order in Canada David A. Wilson (ed.) (Four Courts Press, €55) ISBN 9781846820779 This collection is derived from the first conference on the Orange Order in Canada, held at St Michael’s College, Toronto, in 2005. While the majority of the articles trace the activities and development of the order in Canada from the … Read more
Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746–1818: ultra-Protestant ideologue James Kelly (Four Courts Press, €55) ISBN 9781846821486 The subject of this biography was also the subject of one of Irish history’s more memorable pen-portraits: ‘Sir Richard Musgrave, who (except on the abstract topics of politics, religion, martial law, his wife, the Pope, the Pretender, the Jesuits, Napper Tandy, … Read more
LYNCH, Eliza Alicia (1834–86), mistress of Francisco Solano López (dictator of Paraguay, 1862–70), was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, the eldest of at least three children of John Lynch, a Catholic doctor, and his wife, Jane Elizabeth, second daughter of Captain William Lloyd, RN. Little is known of Eliza’s life before her marriage, at the … Read more
Sir,—Re the ongoing debate on ‘ethnic cleansing’ (Letters, HI 20.3, May/June 2012). In his great welcome-home poem to Daniel O’Connell after the Clare election in 1828, the South Kerry poet Tomás Ruadh Ó Suilleabháin looked forward to Catholic supremacy with the arrival of Emancipation. He warns Protestants that O’Connell will be on their track ‘go … Read more