Sir,—Last issue’s ‘Gems of Architecture’ (HI 23.1, Jan./Feb. 2015), on the Roche’s Stores building on Cork’s main thoroughfare, never refers to the street by its correct name—St Patrick’s Street. I acknowledge that the term ‘Patrick Street’ is commonly spoken, but I believe that the correct name should be used at the very least in the … Read more
Sir,—There are a couple of minor anomalies in last issue’s ‘On this day’ (HI 23.1, Jan./Feb. 2015). We are told that the sculptor John Hughes, responsible for the monument to Charles Kickham in Tipperary town, died on 28 January 1865. This would indeed be remarkable, because the Kickham monument was commissioned after that Fenian leader … Read more
Sir,—Congratulations to Ann Wilson on her excellent article, ‘A young woman’s life in Edwardian Dublin’ (HI 22.6, Nov./Dec. 2014). As she points out, collections of such postcards offer us an opportunity to tune in to the voices of ordinary people in that period, and afford glimpses of mundane and everyday matters not usually covered in … Read more
It is fairly certain that when those charged with developing a programme of commemoration for the ‘Decade of Centenaries’ first met it was the question of how to remember Easter 1916 that caused the most worry. It is unlikely that anyone thought that commemorating the Dublin Lockout would lead to a surge in trade union … Read more
March 01/1965 The remains of Sir Roger Casement, hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for high treason in 1916, were buried with full military honours in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery after a state funeral. 05/1965 Helen Waddell, Tokyo-born and Queen’s University Belfast-educated medievalist and writer, notably of Peter Abelard (1933), died. 07/1965 Civil rights … Read more