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
Sir,—I read Marie Bourke’s article (‘Charles Lambe and the West ofIreland’, HI Spring 2000) with great interest and learned much from it.However, I was, and remain, puzzled about the dramatic painting byLambe on the front cover, Dancing at a Northern Crossroads. My originaldoubts arose from the word ‘northern’. Marie Bourke ties in the workwith Connemara … Read more
Sir,—I refer to the article ‘A German planter in the Midlands’, byBrendan Ryan (HI Spring 2000). Readers might be interested in thefollowing items for further reading: R. Loeber, ‘Civilization throughplantation: the projects of Mathew de Renzi’, in H. Murtagh (ed.),Irish Midland Studies (1980); B. Mac Cuarta, ‘A planter’s interactionwith Gaelic culture: Sir Matthew De Renzy’, … Read more