Letters

Sir,—I am looking for good-quality photographs of the victims of revolutionary violence in County Cork between 1916 and 1923. My forthcoming book (Mercier Press) has identified more than 700 victims during this period. Each victim has been identified and a short description of what happened to them is included. While I have gathered more than … Read more

Sir,—Michael Moroney’s otherwise interesting piece on the last pre-Famine census (‘The 1841 census—do the numbers add up?’, HI 23.3, May/June 2015) unwittingly perpetuates a couple of common misunderstandings of key contemporary passages. The author is of course not the first to question the accuracy of the 1841 return. The census commissioners were themselves struck by … Read more