Sir,—I am issuing a public appeal for information on surviving objects and archives related to Irish women suffragists. I am a museum archaeologist and material culture historian, currently compiling a master’s research thesis on the visual and material culture of the Irish women’s suffrage movement. The year 2018 will mark the centenary of votes for … Read more
Sir,—Angus Mitchell’s review of Leo Keohane’s book on Jack White (HI 23.2, March/April 2015) coincided with the start of my interest in White while preparing research to be published on the centenary of his sensational trial at Aberdare in May 1916. This is part of my wider study into the transnational history of Irish and … Read more
Sir,—In disputing the attribution of a photograph of the New Zealand prime minister ‘outside 10 Downing Street’ (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, p. 35), W. Peter Dunne claims to be familiar with the building and states that ‘there are no steps, nor were there ever any’ at the building. While the picture may, as you suggest, … Read more
Sir,—Michael Robinson’s ‘Broken soldiers’ (HI 24.2, March/April 2016) was a most interesting read. His observation that ‘medical officers were not initially paid for a man rejected’ on examination for recruitment raises the question: did they eventually get paid and, if so, how much? He further informs us that for each recruit passed fit the medical … Read more
Sir,—In his review of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh’s I mBéal an Bháis: The Great Famine and the language shift in nineteenth-century Ireland (HI 24.1, Jan./Feb. 2016), Proinsias Ó Drisceoil makes a number of extremely valid points, amongst them (a) that the Irish colleges in Europe did their best to keep the language alive and (b) that … Read more