Over the course of the editorial process, a small error found its way into Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh’s Platform piece, ‘Revisionists? They haven’t gone away, you know’ (HI 28.4, July/Aug. 2020). While David FitzPatrick’s The two Irelands was one of three books featured in Alvin Jackson’s IHS review article, ‘Twentieth-century foxes? Historians and late modern Ireland’ … Read more
A chara,—Would any of your readers be able to help with biographical information about the life and work of the Irishwoman, Maurin Mitchell, who wrote Storm over Spain (1937), which was published in London by Secker and Warburg? This enquiry is on behalf of a friend, Prof. José Francisco Fernandez Sanchez, at the University of … Read more
Sir,—James O’Neill’s interesting article on the ongoing search for the remains of Red Hugh O’Donnell in Valladolid, Spain (HI 28.4, July/Aug. 2020), brings to mind another heroic Irish leader who is also buried on foreign soil—General Patrick Sarsfield, first earl of Lucan, defender of Limerick, who fought on the Jacobean side in the fateful Williamite … Read more
Sir,—I welcome Dr Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh’s timely analysis of the partial reading of the revolutionary period by earlier revisionist historians (HI 28.4, July/August 2020, Platform). The limited ambition of the ‘assembly line of automatons’ emerging from our history departments during the Decade of Centenaries has facilitated the evolution of a virulent mutation of revisionism. This … Read more
Sir,—I read with interest Alison Martin’s article on Michael Collins and the British press (HI 28.4, July/August 2020). It is, however, a pity that her opening sentence contains a historical inaccuracy, which is repeated in the penultimate paragraph, where the August 1922 death of Collins is termed an ‘assassination’. There were indeed assassinations during the … Read more