Sir,—I question the attribution to the photograph of the New Zealand prime minister ‘outside 10 Downing Street’ (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, p. 35). Wherever it is, it is not 10 Downing Street. I am familiar with the building and there are no steps, nor were there ever any.—Yours etc., W. PETER DUNNE The caption, along … Read more
Sir,—I am writing to inform your readers that on 2–4 June 2016 the European Architectural History Network will hold its fourth inter-national meeting in Dublin Castle. EAHN is Europe’s largest professional organisation for architectural historians. The meeting will include keynote addresses by Sibel Bozdogan, an eminent historian of modern Turkish architecture, and Roger Stalley, as … Read more
Sir,—William Kingston’s opening paragraph (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, pp 48–9) needs revisiting. There are several current theories about why the Lusitania sank, but most of the mainstream ones agree that she was carrying munitions; that she was hit by one torpedo somewhere forward on the starboard side; and that there was a second explosion after … Read more
Sir,—Interesting to learn (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, Seen on TV, pp 50–1) that the current president of University College Cork had never heard of George Boole when he was a student there in the 1970s. Neither had I when I arrived at UCC twenty years later, nor of Boolean logic, and, being English-born, ‘logically’ assumed … Read more
Sir,—D.R. O’Connor Lysaght (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, letters) somewhat misses the point of my Platform piece (HI 23.5, Sept./Oct. 2105). It was not ‘a critique of the Easter Rising’ but rather, as requested by the editor, a comment on the ‘Decade of Centenaries’ from a Belfast viewpoint. It was about how the events of 1912–22 … Read more