Sir,—I would be very grateful if any History Ireland readers could put me in contact with the family of the late Mr Henry Hanna KC, barrister and author of The Pals at Suvla Bay. —Yours etc., PHILIP LECAN Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association 77 Windsor Drive Monkstown Co. Dublin int+353 (0)1 2301489 (home), 4620444 (work)
Sir,—I have recently done a course of reading on women and Irish nationalism. In two separate accounts—Kathleen Clarke’s autobiography, Revolutionary Woman (1991), and R.M. Fox’s Rebel Irishwomen (1935)—it is said that the clause in the 1916 Proclamation concerning the equality of women was opposed by one of the seven signatories. The source for Fox is … Read more
Nicholas Canny (Oxford University Press, £55) ISBN 0198200919 In 1976 Nicholas Canny set the agenda for a generation of scholars of early modern Ireland with The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: a pattern established, 1565-76. He now presents us with a major study of the colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent years that followed. It is … Read more
Sir,—Iam researching the history of commercial brewing in the North-West ofIreland. In particular I am looking for information on Martin JosephMadden Jr, a native of Sligo who resided in Bray, County Wicklow, fromthe 1880s onwards, and Kathleen V. Davys, another native of Sligo whoresided in Bangor, County Down, up to the 1920s. Martin JosephMadden Jr, … Read more
Sir,—I found it odd that you did not aska historian to review The Catholics of Ulster by Marianne Elliott whois not only a noted historian but one of History Ireland’s patrons. Others better qualified or at least possessing ‘the nobility of theGaelic mind’ (to use just one of Mons. Murray’s unhistorical phrases)will, no doubt take … Read more