Sir, —Eugene Duggan suggests (HI 18.1, Jan./Feb. 2010, letters) that aquotation in my book Architects of the Resurrection from an address byMichael Donnellan, in which the Clann na Talmhan leader compared hispolitical mission to that of Adolf Hitler, is not authentic—based uponthe curious rationale that because Mr Duggan failed to come across thisstatement in the … Read more
Sir, —As Lar Joye pointed out (HI 18.1, Jan./Feb. 2010), the story ofIrishmen in the Confederate Army is less well known than that of thosewho served with the Union. There is another category of Irishmen whohave received little attention—those who served in regular Union armyor in volunteer regiments that had no connection to the Irish … Read more
Sir, —The sidebar on Jim Larkin in Jerome aan de Wiel’s article on ‘Sabotage in the USA’ (HI 18.1, Jan./Feb. 2010) is interesting in that it raises associated issues about Larkin’s stay in America between late 1914 and early 1923. Over the years there has been much speculation as to why Larkin spent so … Read more
Sir, —With reference to the article ‘Men at war: nineteenth-centuryIrish war correspondents from the Crimea to China’ in the last issue(HI 15.3, March/April 2007) I was interested to learn of the reportingfrom the Crimea of Edwin Lawrence Godkin. After emigrating to theUnited States in 1856, he developed a strong following here in his roleas the … Read more
History Man: the life of R. G. Collingwood Fred Inglis (Princeton University Press, Ä33.55) IBSN 9780691130149 Robin George Collingwood was born on 22 February 1889 in the English Lake District and died there on 9 January 1943. He wrote extensively on the philosophy of art, metaphysics, the nature of knowledge, archaeology and religion, but … Read more