WOMEN WHO BROKE AWAY FROM THE RESTRAINTS OF CONVENTIONAL LIFESTYLE, THEIR SEX AND THEIR CLASS By Eugene Coyle In the early summer of 1778 two Anglo-Irish women, accompanied by their maidservant, fled from Kilkenny and arrived in north Wales. They were dressed as clergymen and their maidservant as a boy. Who were they, and why … Read more
WITH THE SEPTCENTENARY ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRUCE INVASION OF IRELAND THIS YEAR, PERHAPS IT IS RELEVANT TO ADDRESS A TOPIC OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE INVASION: THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE IRISH PRINCES. By Stephen Hewer The Remonstrance was a petition sent to Pope John XXII in c. 1317 that contained a list of grievances by Domhnall … Read more
Sir,—I may be your only subscriber in Norway, but I enjoy every issue of History Ireland. As a mathematician, I particularly enjoyed the article about Hamilton (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2016). I have a comment about the cover, however. The men on the cover are not Black and Tans, they are Auxiliary Cadets! The Auxies, and … Read more
Sir,—May I be allowed to offer a gentle rebuke to Joseph E.A. Connell (Countdown to 2016) and the many other historians who promote the view that the 1916 Rising was confined to Dublin? Despite the conflicting orders, the Volunteers in County Wexford assembled on Wednesday 27 April, having confirmed that parts of Dublin had already … Read more
Sir,—The review (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2015) of the recent posthumous publication of The genesis of National Socialism by T. Desmond Williams, when recounting Williams’s career, states that ‘he co-wrote an introduction to a book on the Irish Famine’. Williams and his colleague R. Dudley Edwards were indeed the editors of The Great Famine. Studies in … Read more