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Letters

Barry Yelverton

Sir, —I greatly enjoyed Helena Kelleher Kahn’s piece on ‘The Yelverton Affair’ of 1861 (HI 13.1, Jan./Feb. 2005). A cause célèbre can be like a time capsule, accurately preserving incidentally forgotten aspects of history, society and sensibility. Ms Kahn is certainly right in saying that the Yelvertons had an ambiguous reputation. The founder of the … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Issue 3 (May/Jun 2005), Letters, Letters, Volume 13

Seán Russell

The Observer and the Irish Independent reported (2 January 2005) that an anonymous group claimed responsibility for vandalising the statue of IRA leader Seán Russell in Fairview Park, Dublin. It said that as Europe prepares to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, it could no longer tolerate a statue … Read more

Categories 20th-century / Contemporary History, Issue 1 (Jan/Feb 2005), Letters, Letters, Volume 13
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