Sir—I enjoyed Luke Gibbons’ article on Edmund Burke (HI Winter 1997),but may I add another point on the well-known Burke quotation in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia here I come. The quotation, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (‘It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the … Read more
Sir,—I have been researching the history of the Martin/Martyn family of Galway, Ireland for over two years now, detailing as much as is possible of our nine-hundred year history. The real surprise of my work was that after some very detailed and painstaking research—never again!—I have been able to draw up/revise/up-date over a dozen family … Read more
Sir,—I found it curious that Patrick O’Sullivan’s article ‘Ireland and the Olympic Games’ in HI Spring 1998 should fail to mention John Mary Pius Boland (1870-1958). Boland, a Dubliner, won two Olympic gold medals for tennis in the 1896 games in Athens, becoming the first Irishman to win an Olympic honour.—Yours etc., KEVIN O’SULLIVANLetterkennyCo. Donegal … Read more