A man described as ‘one of the greatest advocates of the [nineteenth] century’ has become merely a footnote in history. By Rob Christie Abraham Brewster was born at Ballinulta, Co. Wicklow, in April 1796. He was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1817. He was … Read more
The marquis de Boisseleau and the ‘Battle of the Breach’ at the first siege of Limerick, 1690. By Pádraig Lenihan History recalls Patrick Sarsfield as the hero who saved Limerick from Williamite besiegers in August 1690. The Frenchman who actually commanded the troops holding the city is less well known, though Limerick’s 2013 ‘Sarsfield’s Day’ … Read more
Ireland’s record as regards the slave-trade is far from unblemished. By Laurence Fenton While calls for the removal of a plaque honouring the Galway-born Confederate army officer Dick Dowling from Tuam Town Hall and uncomfortable murmurings about the name of La Touche House in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre show that Ireland has not been … Read more
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