Michael F.X. Hogan One of the least known stories of the Irish who came to America in the 1840s is that of the Irish battalion which fought on the Mexican side in the US-Mexico War of 1846-48. They came to Mexico and died, some gloriously in combat, others ignominiously on the gallows. Under a … Read more
Along with the interview in the summer issue of History Ireland you reproduce a photograph of the delegates to the first Congress of the Irish Inter-Varsity History Students (17 February 1950) over the caption ‘Where are they now?’ I am pleased to shed some light. The TCD delegate W.W.L. Taylor (not Lyons) was for many … Read more
Sir,—I could not help noticing that in the otherwise excellent article about the famous Soloheadbeg (County Tipperary) ambush of January 1919 in the spring 1997 issue of History Ireland that Kevin Haddick Flynn (amongst others) is still claiming that this was the first action of the War of Independence. Not so. A flag must be … 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