Eugene Coyle Near St Abbe’s Head, south of the Firth of Forth, a heavily armed French privateer Calonne flying French colours had just captured the merchant brig Nancy from Aberdeen bound for Newcastle. The Calonne, also known as the La Cologne, was a 400 ton ex-French naval frigate, two-decked and armed with thirty-six cannon … Read more
Kenneth Nicholls It had seriously occurred to me, on reading Steven Ellis’s ‘“More Irish than the Irish themselves’?: the “Anglo-Irish” in Tudor Ireland’ (HI Spring 1999), which seems to argue for a total separation of the ‘Gaelic’ and ‘English’ elements in medieval Irish history, that this view, expressed with heavy Swiftian sarcasm, represents a deliberate … Read more
Mario Sughi A brief entry in the Annals of Ulster, dated June 1513, records the death of the Archbishop of Armagh, Octavian del Palagio. The obit precedes by only a few entries that of a more famous individual: Gerald fitz Thomas FitzGerald, the Great Earl of Kildare, who died … Read more