Sir,—I thoroughly enjoyed Philip Orr’s article on Ballymena during the Home Rule crisis (HI 20.6, Nov./Dec. 2012). I have lived in the town for 40 years and taught history here for 30. A pupil once lent me a postcard (reproduced in my Nationalist and Unionist: Ireland before the Treaty [Blackie & Son, 1989]) sent in … Read more
Kilmainham Gaol Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 +353 (0)1 4535984 /4532037 (fax), kilmainhamgaol@opw.ie April–Sept.: daily 9.30am–6pm (last admission one hour before closing) Oct.–March: Mon.–Sat. 9.30am–5.30pm; Sun. 10am–6pm Adult €5.30; senior/group €3.70; child/student €2.10; family €11.50 by Tony Canavan For many years Kilmainham Gaol was a shrine to Ireland’s struggle for freedom in which many Irish rebels were … Read more
Addressing the jury in the course of George J.’s trial for using an instrument with intent to procure the miscarriage of his girlfriend Carrie D. in June 1945, Mr Justice McCarthy told the jurors that for the past ten or twelve years in Dublin ‘crimes of passion of the worst character have come before the … Read more
Sir, —I read with interest Jim Fitzpatrick’s recollections of meeting Che Guevara in Kilkee in 1962 in your July/August 2008 issue. He mentioned that, according to folklore, another visit to the region saw Guevara locked into Hanratty’s pub in Limerick. A brief article, written by Arthur Quinlan, appeared in the Limerick Leader on 15 March … Read more
Sir, —I’m trying to find more information on an individual called JohnNeale. He was a ‘young socialist cockney member of the Irish CitizenArmy’ who acted as a lookout on top of the Metropole Hotel during theEaster Rising. On the Friday, ‘as the building was being evacuated, hisammunition pouch was exploded by a stray bullet . … Read more