TRACING THE ROUTE TAKEN BY RICHARD II DURING HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ART MAC MURROUGH IN 1394 By Samuel Kinirons King Richard II (1377–99) was the first English monarch to set foot in Ireland since King John. Indeed, Richard visited Ireland twice, first in 1394–5 and again in 1399, shortly before the usurpation of his crown … Read more
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