Sir,—David Snook’s letter (HI 24.1, Jan./Feb. 2016) is further confirmation of the need for research to get to the truth about the sinking of the Lusitania. But this cannot start until the promise of cooperation by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, made publicly by Minister Deenihan in Cork is 2012, is fulfilled. … Read more
Sir,—I have noticed one or two claims in Patrick Maume’s review of my biography of Arthur Griffith (HI 24.2, March/April 2016) that I think necessitate a response. Irrespective of his strange attempt to pigeon-hole me as an ideologue, he states that I describe various figures in the text as ‘British agents’—something that I did not … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN A forgotten collection of memorabilia was recently unearthed in Derry. Among the items in Frankie McMenamin’s collection is a Dublin Castle arrest warrant for Kevin O’Higgins, the architect of the Irish Free State; a cheque for £11 19s. signed by Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike … Read more
OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW MONTHS AN AMAZING NEW DISCOVERY HAS COME TO LIGHT By Rachel Phelan In November 2015, having made contact with Lar Joye at the National Museum, I went to view a flag at the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen Castle, which its curator, Neil Armstrong, had found at the bottom … Read more
May 21/1932 Amelia Earhart (34) became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, emulating Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight five years before, having set out from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, some thirteen hours and fifteen minutes earlier. When she landed in Ballyarnett, north of Derry City, Amelia Earhart wasn’t sure what country she was in. … Read more