Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that is spread through person-to-person or faecal–oral contact. The effects of the disease range from mild to severe, from a minor transient illness to extensive long-term paralysis and even death. The virus invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of … Read more
Just when you thought it was safe…? ‘The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences … Read more
A chara, —I am researching the life of the author, poet and playwrightWinifred M. Verschoyle, née Letts (1882–1972). Her two great-nieceshave kindly allowed me access to her papers, but I am sure that manyother people would have their own stories to tell about her. Ms Lettswas a great friend of my late mother’s. Despite having … Read more
Sir, —While in full agreement with Tim Carey’s platform (HI 14.1, Jan./Feb. 2006) that Mountjoy jail must not be demolished, I wish to correct the statement that: ‘The first four republicans to be executed during the Civil War were shot there by firing squad on 8 December 1922’. That invidious distinction belongs to four young … Read more
Roger Casement in Irish and world history Mary E. Daly (ed.) (Royal Irish Academy, ?30) ISBN 1904890040 This book comprises the papers delivered at a conference—‘Roger Casement in Irish and World History’—held six years ago in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Mary E. Daly, in her introduction, begins by alluding to Lucy McDiarmid’s comment that … Read more