Taming ‘the new monster’

Sir, —In reprising Ciarán Brady’s ‘platform’ piece in the Nov./Dec. 2006issue (‘Taming ‘the new monster’) I note that the web address for oursite is incorrectly cited as ‘www.his.ie’. It should of course be‘www.hist.ie’. —Yours etc., PAT CALLAN History In-Service Team Subscribe to History Ireland in print or digital here View Subscription Options Already a subscriber? … Read more

Nationalist attitudes to tennis

Sir, —In the Jan./Feb. 2007 issue Patrick Maume, in his letter regardingnationalist attitudes to golf, noted: ‘Arthur Clery, who wrote for D.P. Moran’s Leader under the pen-name “Chanel”, devoted considerablecasuistic energy to arguing that tennis and even rugby might betolerated by Gaels . . .’. Not quite so here in Galway City, it seems,because in … Read more