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The IRA and the Emergency – An interview with Brian Hanley
Seán Russel Statue in Fairview Park, Dublin. Sean Russel travelled to Germany to elicit German aid for the IRA, he died in U-boat on the journey back to Ireland. John Dorney caught up with Brian...
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‘Waterford Parted from the Sea’ – The Irish in Newfoundland
Shay Dunphy explores the historical and cultural links between south-east Ireland and Newfoundland in Canada. A depiction of cod fishing in 19th century Newfoundland. The first Europeans arrived on...
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Book Review – Crossfire, The Battle of the Four Courts 1916
By Paul O’Brien, New Island 2012. Reviewer: John Dorney This book, the latest in Paul O’Brien’s series about the battles of Easter week 1916, about the fighting around the Four Courts and North King...
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Irish Women and World War I – an Interview with Fionnuala Walsh.
John Dorney speaks to Fionnuala Walsh about Irish women during the first total war. In Ireland, the First World War saw not only participation in the global conflict but also the beginnings of...
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A depiction of Edward Bruce in combat at the Battle of Faughart. Fedlimid Ó Conchobair, the Second Battle of Athenry, and the Kingship of Ireland. How the Bruce invasion sparked a bitter dynastic war...
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‘Solid Men’ – The Irish in New York Politics, 1880-1920
Tammany Hall, New York, for generations a bastion of Irish political power within the Democratic Party. Now a theatre. How the Irish conquered political power in New York city. By Shay Dunphy....
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General Michael (Miguel) Marmion, the Spanish Army and the Irish ‘Wild Geese’
Irish soldiers in the 18th century Spanish Army. The banner reads ‘Irlanda’. Chevalier William F.K. Marmion, M.A. tells the story of his search for his ancestor and the Irish soldiers of Spain....
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‘Dan of the Feathers’
The ruins of Ballycarbery Castle, where Donal MacCarthy grew up. A look at the legend and reality of Donal ‘of the feathers’ MacCarthy, by Chevalier William F.K. Marmion, M.A. After 400 years this man...
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Book Review: The Flame and the Candle – War in Mayo 1919-1924
By Dominic Price. Collins Press 2012 Reviewer: John Dorney Local studies of revolutionary Ireland are now coming out thick and fast as the centenary of the events of 1913-23 approaches. The wealth of...
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TV documentary Review: In the Name of the Republic
Eunan O’Halpin. Broadcast TV3, 18 and 25 March 2013. Tile Films 2013. Reviewer: John Dorney In this programme Eunan O’Halpin, who has spent the last ten years researching, ‘The Dead of the Irish...
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A Short History of the Hibernian Rifles 1912-1916
A granite plaque on the wall of the Fransiscan’s Foreign Mission Office in Dublin marking the site of a hall where The Hibernian Rifles, Na Fianna Éireann and other republican groups used to hold...
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Democracy in Ireland – A Short History
A short history of democracy and the right to vote in Ireland, By John Dorney. Liberal democracy, since the end of the Cold War has been almost unchallenged as the hegemonic political idea of our age....
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Book Review: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co....
Title: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85 Author: Pat Finnegan ISBN: 978-1-84682-359-6 Price: €35.00 HB | €14.95 PB (Cheaper from the publisher’s website)...
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Connections across the North Channel: Ruaraidh Erskine and Irish Influence in...
How Scottish Gaelic revivalist and nationalist Ruaraidh Erskine was radicalised by Padraig Pearse and Irish nationalism. By Patrick Witt. Scottish Nationalists march. Their predecessors in the early...
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Book Review: From Pogrom to Civil War, Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA
Title: From Pogrom to Civil War, Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA Author: Kieran Glennon ISBN: 978-1-78117-146-2 Price: €19.99 (Cheaper from the publisher’s website) Publisher: Mercier Press 2013...
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A Black and Tan Executed – The life and death of William Mitchell
William Mitchel, Black and Tan, executed for murder April 1921. The search for the short and tragic life of William Mitchell, Executed in Dublin in 1921. By DJ Kelly. On Tuesday 7th June 1921, three...
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“Shot down like a dog” The Finglas Riot of 1913
The ‘Bloody Sunday’ riot of August 1913. The then rural village of Finglas had its own disturbances during the strike. Christopher Lee on an episode of the 1913 Lockout. For more articles on the strike...
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An Invite To Paul O’Brien’s Latest Book Launch
A blatant use of The Irish Story for my own ends, for which I apologize, but do come along! Eoin
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Book Review Review – The Civic Guard Mutiny
Title: The Civic Guard Mutiny Author: Brian McCarthy Publisher: Mercier Press Date of Publication: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-78117-045-8 Price: €14.99 Reviewer: Cathal Brennan The Civic Guard Mutiny by Brian...
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Ireland and the great flu epidemic of 1918
John Dorney takes a look at the great killer in Ireland in 1918-19, not political violence or the Great War, but the ‘Spanish Flu’. The year 1918 is justly remembered in Ireland for the election...
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