Sir,—With regard to Thomas O’Loughlin’s ‘Giraldus Cambrensis’s view ofEurope’ (HI Summer 2000), would the fact that Reggio di Calabria isemphasised in the map have anything to do with the fact that the HolyRoman Emperors resided at that stage mainly in the very south of Italyand in fact later in Sicily which had come to Henry … Read more
Sir,—I read withgreat interest the response of readers (‘letters’, HI Summer 2000) tomy article, ‘Charles Lambe and the West of Ireland’ (HI Spring 2000). Jim Jenkins wonders if Dancing at a Northern Crossroads is really setin Armagh and not the west of Ireland. While Charles Lamb came fromPortadown, the important part of his training took … Read more
Sir,–Bob Curran, in his article ‘Was Dracula an Irishman?’ (HI Summer 2000), cites my joint study of the Irish background, The Undead: the legend of Bram Stoker and Dracula, written under my pseudonym, Peter Tremayne, together with Peter Haining (Constable 1997). In the light of some subsequent research we might append a footnote which will … Read more
Charles Doherty lectures in early Irish history at University College Dublin; Dermot Keogh is professor history at University College Cork Neil Fleming is a research student at the Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast; Terence McCaughey lectures in Scots Gaelic at Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor Finlay Holmes has put us in his debt once again by telling the often very complex story of Irish Presbyterianism in a narrative which is itself a model of clarity. In this book he returns to some themes which he has treated of before in articles in learned journals but which the general reader … Read more