By Edmond Barrett In 1993 the new, small ten pence coin was introduced to replace the 1971 design. Time, and with it inflation, had rendered the old design increasingly expensive in relation to its monetary value. With the successful introduction of the smaller version of the 5p coin, the time seemed right for a new … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons The Valuation Office collection contains three distinct sets of records: the Archives (see Kindred Lines, HI 31.6, Nov./Dec. 2023, p. 33), Griffith’s Valuation and the Cancelled Books. The Cancelled Books comprise the largest part of the collection, collated over the longest time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. Over a period … Read more
By Damian Murphy A little of Carrick-on-Shannon’s ecclesiastical heritage was lost but much more was gained when Edward Costello (1823–91) chose to build a mortuary chapel not in the sylvan setting of a churchyard or municipal cemetery but on the site of an old Primitive Wesleyan meeting-house in Bridge Street, a bustling high street, and … Read more
By Paddy Cullivan While researching my show ‘The Murder of Wolfe Tone’, I noticed an error in Georgina Laragy’s article ‘Wolfe Tone and the culture of suicide in eighteenth-century Ireland’ (HI 21.6, Nov./Dec. 2013, pp 20–2). She writes: ‘According to a London newspaper, the Courier, Major Sandys, who was in charge of Tone’s trial, was … Read more
Sir—I should like to express my interest and gratitude to David Mulhall for his piece ‘Ulysses as history’ (HI 32.3, May/June 2024). As a historian first, I have found this extremely helpful in highlighting major themes and the wider span of experience, language, nuances of decades drawn into a day’s events. As a historian involved … Read more