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The article explores the youthful patriotism and vigorous activism of Cesca Chenevix Trench based on her letters, sketches, personal papers and diary of the years 1913 to 1916. Also described is how a girl from a leading Anglo-Irish Protestant family, brought up in a vicarage in Kent, adopted the identity of an Irish Irelander and became a staunch nationalist.

This article presents news briefs regarding issues of history. Archaeologists in Pakistan are calling for a complete ban on the use of historical sites for private functions. The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to allow greater access to the papers of former presidents. Geneticists working on DNA data from across the British Isles are presenting the theory that the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland are more closely related than previously thought.

Examines the facts and the myths of Irish nationalist hero Robert Emmet. Failure of his rebellion against Great Britain; Role of the Romantic movement in the emergence of Irish nationalism; Depiction of radicalism in his poetry; Influence on the Irish uprising in 1916; Attention paid to the manner of his death.

Profiles 19th century African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, with emphasis on his visit to Ireleand in 1845. Concerns about his public profile in the U.S.; Relations between abolitionists in the U.S. and Great Britain; Slave trade in Ireland during the period.

Profiles Theobald Wolfe Tone, the man who brought the French to the aid of the Irish cause in the 1790s. Assessment of Wolfe Tone's progress from political constitutionalist to revolutionary republican; Personal information; Educational background; Career in politics.

A biography of Irish journalist William Howard Russell is presented. He was born in Ireland in 1820 into an upper class family and attended Trinity College in Dublin. He started writing as a journalist while an undergraduate and continued to do freelance work after graduation after he accepted a job at the Kennsington Grammar School in Kennsington, England. He was notable for his coverage of the Crimean War, the Sepoy Mutiny in India, and the U.S. Civil War for "The Times" newspaper. He died in 1907.

The article discusses the visit of Queen Victoria of Great Britain to Ireland in 1853, during which she visited the Irish cities of Cork, Dublin, and Belfast. It comments that the occasion of her visit was the Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin that year, and examines her relations with the Exhibition's chief promoter, William Dargan. Other topics explored by the author include relations between Great Britain and Ireland, relations between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, and the Irish education system.

The article discusses the 1848 uprising carried out by Irish nationalist organization Young Ireland to gain independence from Great Britain, and provides information about the future lives of some organization members. It is argued that famine and the outbreak of revolutions across Europe inspired the uprising. The British government did not severely punish participants in the uprising, who went on to have successful careers in politics, the military, and abroad.

Surveys the growth of republicanism in Ireland. Years when revolts against British rule in Ireland had failed; What the nationalist newspaper `Sin Fein,' brought by journalist Arthur Griffith, demanded; Background on the uprising that took place in Dublin, Ireland at Easter of 1916. INSET: TIMELINE.

The article reports on the history of John Atherton, the bishop of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland. A ghost story and a chance discovery in a local history led the author to uncover new information about the bishop, who had been hanged for sodomy and for "popish" behavior in the Church of Ireland. A report of a ghost accused Atherton of having a child with his wife's sister. The political story was detailed in Nicholas Bernard's "The Penitent Death of a Woeful Sinner."

The article focuses on author Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the English captains in charge of killing 600 Italian and Spanish soldiers at fort Del Oro near Smerwick, Ireland on November 10, 1580. It mentions that Raleigh was known as a man of great sensitivity and literary ability. Raleigh failed to mention the Smerwick massacre in his correspondence or writing. The author questions the lack of account of the incident in his book "The History of the World" wherein he condemned several notable people of unnecessary cruelties.