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
Sir,—Fearghal McGarry’s article on the Bureau of Military History and Easter 1916 (HI 19.6, Nov./Dec. 2011) does not give credit to the first recorder of witness statements, Diarmuid Lynch. Repatriated from America to Ireland in 1932, Lynch began an active programme of contacting, interviewing and recording statements from all those of the GPO garrison who … Read more
Sir,—I would like to thank Conor McNamara for bringing to the attention of readers ‘Special Constable Samuel Page’s letter to his mother’ concerning the execution of the ‘Manchester Martyrs’, Allen, Larkin and O’Brien, on 23 November 1867 (HI 19.6, Nov./Dec. 2011). Readers may or may not be aware that a fourth man, Captain Edward O’Meagher … Read more