January 5 1922Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer, died suddenly in South Georgia as he prepared to lead a fourth expedition to the Antarctic. 7 1922Dáil Éireann approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64 votes to 57. 16 1922Michael Collins, as chairman of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland, formally accepted the transfer of power from the … Read more
In spite of severe ongoing cutbacks, not to mention a philistine and counterproductive proposal to amalgamate it with the National Library to save money, the National Archives scored another triumph recently with the launch of its on-line Treaty exhibition (http://treaty.nationalarchives.ie/), which includes not only the signed 1921 Treaty document itself (now available to the public … Read more
Sir,—I am glad to be in the position to let Niall Meehan and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (letters, HI, Nov./Dec. 2011) know that any errors—mostly minor transcriptional and/or typographical—that they found in the first edition of The Year of Disappearances have been corrected as part of the process of bringing out a second edition. Any other issues raised … Read more
Sir,—May I add afew words to W.H. Kautt’s review of William Sheehan’s A Hard Local War: the British Army and the guerilla war in Cork,1919-1921 (HI 19.4, July/August2011)? Sheehan refers to a book of mine, TheOrigins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland, 1920, and claimsthat I make ‘sweeping claims’ such as ‘the British Army … Read more
Sir,—I wish to comment on Eamon O’Flaherty’s review of the Abbey Theatre’s recent production of Seán O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock (HI 19.6, Nov./Dec. 2011). While the review provides an excellent account of this latest Abbey revival, it contains a misleading historical oversight or typo. In the first two paragraphs, your reviewer places The Plough … Read more