Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers and contributors! These were our top ten most read articles of 2023.
Top Ten Articles
- The First battle of Marrowbone, Belfast 1920, by Gus McKendry
- War along the Border, Ireland 1922 by John Dorney
- ‘A Terror to the Countryside’, Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry, by John Dorney
- The Death of Thomas Keating a Civil War killing in Waterford, by David Prendergast
- ‘They killed idealism in my soul’ The end of the Irish Civil War, by John Dorney
- Did Michael Collins order the death of Henry Wilson? By Ronan McGreevey
- Clashmealcon Caves and Ballymullen Barracks, the tragedies of Kerry, April 1923, by Bryan McMahon
- ‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace talks in London during the Civil War, by Karl O’Hanlon
- Jan Smuts and the Anglo Irish Truce of 1921, by Jack Traynor
- John ‘Old Smoke’ Morrissey the man who ordered the death of Bill ‘the Butcher’ Poole. By John Joe McGinley
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Top 5 Book reviews
- Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic, by Gerard Shannon reviewed by John Dorney
- Rewriting the Troubles, War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria, by Patrick Anderson, reviewed by Donal Hassett
- A People Under Siege – The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond, by Aaron Edwards, reviewed by Kieran Glennon
- Homeward Bound, Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire, by Niamh Dillon, reviewed by Sean Gannon
- A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1980-1989 Volume 2 byGearóid Ó Faoleán, reviewed by Robert Collins
Top Podcasts
- The Terror Month in Kerry, March 1923
- The Army Mutiny of 1924
- The Desmond Rebellions
- The General Election of 1923, with Mel Farrell and Elaine Callinane
- Liam Lynch with Gerard Shannon
- Land and Revolution in Ireland with Terry Dunne
- Executions during the Irish Civil War
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