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‘One Irregular was killed’: The death of John Lawlor of Ballyheigue, Co....
An IRA flying column, at Kilflynn Kerry in 1922. (Courtesy of the Irish Volunteer website) By Bryan MacMahon Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, has received very little attention from national or even local...
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TV documentary reviews: The Irish Civil War and Marú in Íarthar Chorcaí
The Irish Civil War Directed by Ruan Mangan Reviewer: Thomas Tormey Airing on RTÉ One over the nights of 11,12,13 December and now available on the RTÉ Player, The Irish Civil War documentary series...
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Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with...
By Gerard Lovett Published by Eastwood Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1-913934-29-3 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with the IRA, 1922-1947, by...
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Book Review: The Celt, A Sceptical History
By Simon Jenkins Profile Books Ltd, 2022 Reviewer: Patrick Fresne The word ‘Celt’ is a potent attention-grabber in the English-speaking world, and for publishers in particular, the word seems to have...
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Book Review: Walfrid: A Life of Faith, Community and Football
By Dr Michael Connolly. Published by Argyle Books Reviewer, Barry Sheppard The connections between Glasgow Celtic Football Club and Ireland are well known, even to those who don’t follow the beautiful...
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The Irish Story Top Ten articles of 2022
Dublin crowds watch the fighting on O’Connell Street in July 1922. Happy New Year to all Irish Story reader and contributors. These are our most read articles of the year just gone, 2022. The year was...
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Book Review: No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry
by Owen O’Shea Merrion Press, Newbridge 2022. ISBN97817835374333 Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald In the summer of 1922 Free State army commanders Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy devised a sea...
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Book Review: Irish Days, Indian Memories: V. V. Giri and Indian Law Students...
By Conor Mulvagh Published by Irish Academic Press Reviewed by Eoin O’Driscoll On Saturday 17th December 2022, Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar was reappointed to serve a second term as Taoiseach. When...
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When An American Suffragette Interviewed Ireland’s ‘First Lady’
Doris Stevens, about 1918, from Library of Congress. By Mark Holan American suffragette, feminist, and author Doris Stevens wrote a profile of Sinéad de Valera in summer 1921 that was sympathetic to...
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Podcast: Executions during the Irish Civil War
‘The Murder Members’ -the Anti-Treaty IRA threatens TDs who voted for emergency legislation authorising executions. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Government policy of execution during the...
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‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace...
‘W.B. Yeats and other dignitaries at the funeral of Kevin O’Higgins’, Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. By Karl O’Hanlon In February 1923, as the Civil War raged in Ireland, W.T. Cosgrave...
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Jan Smuts and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921
Jan Christian Smuts. The Boer guerrilla fighter and later British General who helped to broker a truce in Ireland in 1921. Jack Traynor Jan Smuts, a one-time Boer general turned South African statesman...
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Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne
Potato digging in Galway early 1900s. (Courtesy of of National Archives site) Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian agitation, land reform and political upheaval in Ireland from 1919 to...
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‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
A National Army armoured car in Cork, 1922. By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of the Truce with the British, that just...
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Al Smith, the man who wanted to be president but helped build the Empire...
Al Smith. By John Joe McGinley As President Joe Biden whose ancestors hail from Ballina in Co Mayo and the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth has just announced his visit to Ireland. This article looks at...
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Book Review: Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic
By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a band of fugitives fled up a hillside in the...
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‘Lives Illuminated’ a glimpse at Irish-Jewish history
By John Dorney An exhibition in Stratford College, part of a project by their Transition year students, aided by historians such as Saul Woulfson, along with Jewish Arts Culture Ireland (JACI), shed a...
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Book Review: Rewriting the Troubles, War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria
By Patrick Anderson Reviewer: Donal Hassett Published by Greenisland Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-3949573026 Patrick Anderson’s Rewriting the Troubles is engaging and frustrating in equal measure,...
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The death of Thomas Keating: A Civil War Killing in Waterford
Portrait of Thomas Keating. Source; John Quinlan. By David Prendergast On April 11th 1923, Thomas Keating, the 30-year-old guerrilla commandant of the Waterford IRA 2nd Battalion, was trekking through...
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Podcast: Liam Lynch with Gerard Shannon
Liam Lynch. It is now 100 years ago that Liam Lynch, head of the anti-Treaty IRA was killed. Here we discuss lynch’s life and times with his biographer, Gerard Shannon, author of ‘Liam Lynch, To...
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