Along with the interview in the summer issue of History Ireland youreproduce a photograph of the delegates to the first Congress of theIrish Inter-Varsity History Students (17 February 1950) over thecaption ‘Where are they now?’ I am pleased to shed some light. The TCDdelegate W.W.L. Taylor (not Lyons) was for many years a senior officialin … Read more
Sir,—I could not help noticing that in the otherwise excellent articleabout the famous Soloheadbeg (County Tipperary) ambush of January 1919in the spring 1997 issue of History Ireland that Kevin Haddick Flynn(amongst others) is still claiming that this was the first action ofthe War of Independence. Not so. A flag must be raised for the ‘men … Read more
Sir,—I agree with your reviewer of Roy Foster’s The Apprentice Mage (Eve Patten, HI Summer 1997), that ‘the detail of Foster’s work is important’. As a biographer of John MacBride (Major John MacBride [Westport Historical Society 1991]), I looked forward to the publication of The Apprentice Mage. Eve Patten also writes that ‘this is a … Read more
Michael Ryan is Curator of the Chester Beatty Library; Michael Brown lectures in Scottish history at the University of St Andrews; Henry A. Jeffries teaches history at Thornhill College, Derry; Gráinne Henry teaches history at Presentation College, Tralee; Emmet O’Connor lectures in history at the University of Ulster,Magee College; J.H. Andrews is formerly associate professor … Read more
Among the various terms applied to works of reference, ‘atlas’ has now become the most user-friendly, more companionable than ‘companion’ and certainly less repellent than ‘dictionary’, ‘directory’ or ‘encyclopaedia’. To match its changing semantic context, the typical modern atlas has fewer and simpler maps than its mid-century predecessors; it also has more non-cartographic illustrations, especially … Read more