ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY JULY 22/1950 Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock (57), the film director known as Rex Ingram, died in California. Born in Rathmines, the son of a clergyman, Ingram emigrated at the age of eighteen and studied sculpture in New York. Subsequently he joined the Edison Film Studios, where he acted, wrote scripts and, in … Read more

War and genocide—then and now

Our front cover features a painting of the Lancaster bomber—VN-Z ME798—crewed by Irish airman Sergeant P.B. McRann, the subject of a piece of family history detective work by Desmond Gibney on pp 44–6. For male readers of a certain age the image will surely conjure up nostalgic memories, particularly olfactory ones, of Airfix model-making. But … Read more