Sir—In your last issue Brian Hanley refers to a ‘Donie O’Neill’ as oneof the defenders of Connolly House during a violent anti-Communistattack in March 1933. The name mentioned is obviously a misprint forDonie O’Reilly. Not alone was he a founder member of the CommunistParty of Ireland in June 1933, he was one of the first … Read more
Sir,—I was interested to read Stephen Royle’s article in the last issue on Irish island emigration and its legacy. I have just spent six months on Dursey Island, West Cork from September 1998 to February 1999. Dursey has a total population of five native islanders with several houses renovated as holiday homes. I would like … Read more
Steven G. Ellis is Associate Professor of History at University College Galway; Oliver P. Rafferty is Director of Studies at Campion Hall, Oxford; Patrick Maume lectures in history at Queen’s University, Belfast; Michael Perceval-Maxwell is Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal; James G.R. Cronin is a postgraduate history student at University College Cork.
In the Kenneth Nicholls’ article, ‘Worlds Apart?: the Ellis Two-NationTheory on Late Medieval Ireland’, in the last issue an extraneous ‘and’(not the author’s) garbled the meaning of the last complete sentence atthe bottom of page 24 (third column). It should have read: When in 1519 and 1520 Lord Barry sells an exemption from the exactionswhich … Read more
Under the sponsorship of History Ireland and the Keough-Notre DameCentre, the fifth annual Byrne/Perry Summer School convened in Gorey,County Wexford this June. Director Dáire Keogh and the local committeechaired by Revd. Walter Forde, organised a memorable conference thataddressed not only the anticipation and enactment of The Act of Unionbut also its implications in the present … Read more