It is difficult to make the case that more than a tiny fraction of the population shared in any consequent prosperity. By Brian Kelly Among its most salutary effects, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor has compelled a reckoning with the formative role … Read more
Sir,—Despite the lengthy criticism by Michael Quigley of Ontario of a Big Book review which I wrote about two excellent books in HI 28.4, July/August 2020, on the partition of Ireland 100 years ago, books which he does not say he has read, I am not convinced that there is any issue of substance between … Read more
Sir,—While I haven’t the slightest interest in defending the alt-right, the arguments that Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc levels against them create more general problems for our understanding of history (HI 28.1, Jan./Feb. 2020, Platform). For example, he accuses the alt-right of not understanding the difference between Irish nationalism and republicanism. He says that republicanism espouses … Read more
Sir,—Jeffrey Dudgeon describes as ‘fallacious’ (HI 28.6, Nov./Dec. 2020, letters) my and Fr John Hassan’s use of the word ‘pogrom’ to describe the events of 1920–22 in Belfast (‘Facts and fallacies of the Belfast pogrom’, HI 28.5, Sept./Oct. 2020) and he calls for context and definition. The context consists of three overlapping developments that, by … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN Battle of Jutland survivor stays afloat It was feared that ten jobs could go at the HMS Caroline floating museum in Belfast as the British government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ended, but the museum’s staff have been offered a temporary reprieve. The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) announced that it … Read more