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Podcast: Irish Army Deserters in the Second World War with Cían Harte
An Irish Army recruitment poster during the Emergency. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Cian Harte, author of Heroes Or Traitors? Irish Deserters of WWII about Irish Army deserters in the...
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Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
October 1920: British soldiers guarding the railway in Ireland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images/ RTE), By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in...
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Perceptions of Richard J. Daley: Ireland and Irish America
Richard J. Daley in 1962 By Ray Esten Richard J. Daley (1902-1976), the long-time mayor Chicago, was variously described in Ireland as a proud representative of the Irish in America and by others as a...
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‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
Michael Fitzgerald By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Lynch had been wounded following a...
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Podcast: The 1641 Rebellion
A government punitive expedition, north of Dublin, in 1641 Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the start of the great convulsion of mid seventeenth century Ireland. First broadcast on the Irish...
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A Stroll Through Rebel Cork
The aftermath of the burning of Cork, December 1920 By Dara Burke Picture the scene. Groups of armed men stalking Cork city, firing into the air, smashing shop windows, setting fire to buildings....
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Mother Jones: ‘the most dangerous Irish woman in America’
Mary ‘Mother’ Jones By John Joe McGinley Mary Harris Jones, a proud Cork woman, was a teacher, seamstress, labour activist and union organiser. A champion of the underdog and the working-class, Jones...
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Book Review: Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland 1918-1923
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a study of County Kerry, principally during the Irish War...
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Author response: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald on Combatants and Civilians in...
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald I would firstly like to extend my thanks to John Dorney for his careful, measured and thoughtful review of my book. The Irish Story over the years has become a vital resource...
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Podcast: Ian Paisley with Ed Moloney
Ian Paisley in 1985. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview journalist Ed Moloney on the career of unionist leader Ian Paisley. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. Ian Paisley began his career...
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Civil War casualties in County Wicklow, 1922-1923
National Army troops in a posed photograph near Brittas, Wicklow in 1922. By Aaron Ó Maonaigh This article is part of an ongoing project to count the dead of the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. It has been...
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‘The Blood of Irish rebels flowed in his veins’: Che Guevara and the Irish
Guevara depicted on the ‘international wall’ in Belfast. By Barry Sheppard Since his execution in Bolivia in 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has been an ever-present icon of left protest movements and...
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Book Review: Without a Dog’s Chance, The nationalists of Northern Ireland and...
By James Cousins, Published by Irish Academic Press, 2020 ISBN:9781788551021 Reviewer: John Dorney As the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty approaches, attention will once more be brought to bear...
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Treaties that Shaped the Course of Irish History
Michael Collins signs the Treaty. By John Dorney Today, December 6 2021, is 100 years since the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. The Treaty or ‘Articles of Agreement’ created the Irish Free...
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The Wiggan’s Patch Massacre, Pennsylvania, 1875
The Boarding house where the murders took place. The terrible murders of Charles O’Donnell and Ellen McAllister. By John Joe McGinley Early in the morning of December 10th, 1875, a large group of...
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‘A Hard Bargain’ An Analysis of the Social and Economic Background of Kerry...
A scene from rural Kerry in the early 1900s. Life and work in County Kerry, 100 years ago. By Kieran McNulty Sunday was “hiring–day” for the farmers and farm labourers gathered outside Saint John’s...
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The Irish Story Top Ten of 2021
Arthur Griffith, at the Mansion House in Dublin in July 1921, after the announcement of the Truce. Thanks to all of our writers contributors guest and readers of the past year. Below is a list of our...
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The Treaty Debates: December 14 1921- January 7 1922
Michael Collins signs the Treaty. By John Dorney In the Second Dáil, on January 7 1922, the parliament of the Irish Republic, or the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in British theory, voted to...
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Today in Irish History – January 16 1922, The handover of Dublin castle – or...
Dublin Castle, centre of the British administration. By John Dorney In January 1922, with the Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified in British and Irish parliaments[1] events in Ireland began to move at a rapid...
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The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Addendum
1920, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK — A British soldier guards a sandbagged blockhouse in Belfast on Orange Day during the Sinn Fein Rebellion. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS By Kieran...
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