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Blue Hussars
Sir, —I have a little footnote to add to your article on the Eucharistic Congress (HI 15.6, Nov./Dec. 2007). At the time, the country was in severe financial trouble and could not afford new tack for...
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Sir, —Niall Meehan has two errors in his letter on James Craig (HI 16.3,May/June 2008). He says that in my own letter in the previous edition Iquoted the historian Jonathan Bardon as saying that Craig...
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The Catholic Church: inimical to democratic freedoms
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At the grave risk of appearing a pedant (God forbid!), may Irespectfully suggest that the reference to Raymond le Gros in yourMay/June 2008 issue (‘On this day’, 1 May 1170, p. 8) meritscorrection? Le...
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Blue Hussars
Sir, —I have a little footnote to add to your article on the Eucharistic Congress (HI 15.6, Nov./Dec. 2007). At the time, the country was in severe financial trouble and could not afford new tack for...
View Article‘A Protestant parliament for a Protestant people’?
Sir, —Niall Meehan has two errors in his letter on James Craig (HI 16.3,May/June 2008). He says that in my own letter in the previous edition Iquoted the historian Jonathan Bardon as saying that Craig...
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The Catholic Church: inimical to democratic freedoms
Members of the Dáil and Senate at the Eucharistic Congress, 1932—such images reinforced Protestant/unionist perceptions of a southern state dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. (Central Press) I saw...
View ArticleNaming committees
A chara, —Naturally, I believe, if we are interested in history weshould want all our new residential developments in Ireland to be givennames that relate to the history (and geography) of the various...
View ArticleRaymond le Gros a Carew, not a Fitzgerald
At the grave risk of appearing a pedant (God forbid!), may Irespectfully suggest that the reference to Raymond le Gros in yourMay/June 2008 issue (‘On this day’, 1 May 1170, p. 8) meritscorrection? Le...
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