Sir,—GregoryAllen’s article on Carl Hardebeck in the last issue was most welcome,especially at a time when Irish vocal music enjoys such popularity. Therestoration of Hardebeck’s name and contribution should be ofsignificant interest to all contemporary students of the art form. It is ironic, however, that in crediting the editors and friends ofthe Capuchin Annual with … Read more
Sir,—I greatly enjoyed your Summer 1998edition dedicated to the 1798 rebellion. I discovered aspects new to meand interpretations which challenged my conceptions based as they wereon, In the county of Wexford those rebels did rise, All brave Orangemen they thought they’d sacrifice…. Tofind that Scullabogue barn is little known in (local) popular historyand that Church … Read more
Sir,—With reference to the article on 1798 in the North in the Summer 1998 issue, it was mentioned that the Ards men joined the insurgents from Saintfield and Ballynahinch at Creevy Rocks. A search of the Ordnance Survey map and enquiries from persons within the Saintfield, Crossgar, Ballynahinch triangle have failed to locate the whereabouts … Read more
John McGurk’s Herculean study of the raising, supplying and impact of the Elizabethan army of the 1590s on England and Ireland is the result of years of painstaking research and is unlikely to be replaced as the standard work for quite some time to come. Aside from Bartlett and Jefferey’s recent Military History of Ireland … Read more
This is a ‘popular’ rather than an academic work. The author states at the outset that it is ‘designed merely to keep before the public eye a neglected area of historical research and evaluation and to bring some more anecdotal material into the public domain in an edited, organised and palatable form’ (p.9). By academic … Read more