Letters

Landscapes of South Ulster Sir — I was more than surprised to read in Brian McDonald’s review of Landscapes of South Ulster (HI summer 1994) that included in Clogher diocese were ‘a single parish in south Donegal and…seven townlands of County Louth’. The volume itself is quite explicit in showing two Donegal parishes (Pettigo and … Read more

Representing Ireland: literature and the origins of conflict 1534–1660

Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley (eds.) (Cambridge University Press, £35) ‘Ireland’, say Hadfield and Maley in one of the many rhetorical flourishes which enliven this collection, ‘was not a fixed, stable entity. It was a complex differentiated, heterogeneous and variegated text (their italics).’ In the wake of this ringing manifesto those anticipating the … Read more