Heritage Retrieval Project State Library of Queensland, Australia Since its establishment in 1993, The Heritage Retrieval Project has been most successful in collecting intriguing stories about its earliest settlers. These pioneers came from farms, villages and towns in Ireland, bringing skills, courage and determination to the new colony of Queensland. Representatives from the State Library … Read more
UCG Women’s Studies Centre Review III Volume III of the UCG Women’s Studies Centre Review, edited by Pat Byrne, Jane Conroy and Alan Hayes, is now available and contains eighteen papers on a broad range of subjects. Of particular interest to readers of History Ireland are ‘The status of women in medieval Ireland’ (Aoife de … Read more
Local Government in Nineteenth Century Ireland Virginia Crossman (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast £4.95) Reviewed by Catherine Shannon Over the past three decades historians have documented fully the rise and successful mobilisation of Irish national consciousness during the nineteenth century and the subsequent establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. What is not so … Read more
Sir,—I am one of many who don’t know much about Michael Collins, but I have done an oral history of someone who served under him from 1919 until the split. This man clearly read Tim Pat Coogan’s biography as stating that Collins was a ‘womaniser’ (contrary to Ian McKeane, HI Autumn 1995), but asserted that … Read more
Sir,—I was one of the Irish soldiers who took part in the ceremonial transfer of Cork Harbour defences from British to Irish armed forces on 11 July 1938. When Chamberlain asked Eamonn de Valera when he would like that transfer to take place, Dev replied, ‘11 July, the seventeenth anniversary of the Truce, 1921’. I … Read more