Sir,—I recently bought the Winter issue of HI. I found it both enlightening and entertaining. I particularly liked the article by Christine Kinealy about revisionism and the Great Irish Famine. I discovered what I believe to be an error in the Connemara Railway article. If you will carefully examine both photographs of the stations at … Read more
Sir,—Would any reader direct me to any sources which might hold information about Bishop Alexis Stafford, listed as a member of the Jacobite Parliament in 1689 for the town and borough of Bannow, County Wexford? He is said to have fought and died at the battle of Aughrim in 1691. I shall be happy to … Read more
Sir,—In his review in the last issue of HI (Spring 1996) of Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland Adrian Empey quotes what purports to be a sentence from my paper published therein: ‘For some reason or other, never satisfactorily explained, de Courcy’s army passed through Louth without so much as lopping off a head’ and … Read more
Sir,—The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, the body which represents the interests of History as an academic discipline wishes to express the alarm of all university teachers of History in Ireland at the prospect that pupils in Irish secondary schools may no longer be required to study History up to Junior Certificate level. Our concern … Read more
Reviewed by Seán Duffy At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her subject. Of equal importance, and frequently undertaken with even more enthusiasm, is the task of warning students off certain other books … Read more