Sir,—Your readers may be able to assist in my search for information. I am a published deaf author of two historical books: Deaf heritage in Canada: a distinctive, diverse, and enduring culture (1996) and Samuel Thomas Greene: a legend in the nine-teenth century deaf community (2005). During the course of my research I became interested … Read more
Sir,—D.R. O’Connor Lysaght writes (HI 24.4, July/August 2016) that my ‘interesting article’ on Arthur Griffith and Jews ‘is marred by an implicit assumption that because its subject supported Zionism he could not have been an anti-Semite’. The problem with ‘implicit assumptions’ is that they are in the eye of the beholder. In fact I assume … Read more
Sir,—Paul Duffy’s interesting article on Hugh II de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade (HI 24.5, Sept./Oct.) makes no mention of the central fact of that event which, like the ‘crusades’ to Jerusalem, involved the slaughter or burning of thousands of men, women and children. I would also query the use of the word ‘heresy’ without … Read more
Sir,—A coda, if I may, to my article ‘Roger Casement and the History Question’ (HI 24.4, July/August 2016) that responds to the letters in the following issue. When working as a historical consultant for the exhibition at Kerry County Museum, ‘Casement in Kerry: A Revolutionary Journey’, I supported the idea of the curator, Helen O’Carroll, … Read more