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Book Review: Myth and the Irish State
Title: Myth And The Irish State Author: John M Regan Publisher: Irish Academic Press 2013 ISBN: 978-0-71653-212-5 Price: €27.95 in paprback (cheaper via the publisher) Reviewer: John Dorney This is an...
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The People’s College Lecture Series on the Irish Revolution. Lectures 1-3
The People’s College with Irish Story contributors John Dorney and Cathal Brennan, are running a series of historical lectures. See below, the videos of talks by Brian Crowley, Ann Mathews and John...
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Deceptive Manoeuvres: Daniel Murray, Florence O’Donoghue and the Death of...
Michael Collins, whose death in August 1922 continues to be the subject of polemic. Denis Lenihan replies to Dan Murray’s article on Florence O’Donoghue and the killing of Michael Collins at Beal na...
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Robert Emmet, the 1803 Proclamation of Independence and the ghost of 1798
Robert Emmet. Maeve Casserly examines the thinking of Robert Emmet, architect of the 1803 rebellion. In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small band of republican revolutionaries proclaimed the...
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Transport in 19th Century Dublin
Broadstone station. Michael Barry looks at how people got around in 19th century Dublin Georgian Dublin was an intimate city, easily contained within its two canals, and it was possible to walk...
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From Limerick to Antwerp – Irish Brigades Abroad 1690-1815
Stephen McNally’s book on the Irish Brigades. Stephen McNally on Irish military service abroad from the Treaty of Limerick until the defeat of Napoleon. See also the Irish in Spanish service. The...
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Opinion: Remembrance and Reconciliation: Heroes in the Irish War of Independence
The Kilmichael Memorial in County Cork Donald Masterson on healing the wounds of the Irish independence struggle. As Ireland enters the first years of its decade long centenary observances, the...
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Videos of the People’s College Series on the Irish Revolution , lectures 4-6
Part two in the series of the Irish Revolution talks put on by the People’s College and organised by John Dorney and Cathal Brennan. First part here. ‘Labour Must Wait’ Emmet O’Connor on why the Irish...
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‘Peace After the Final Battle’, The Story of the Irish Revolution, by John...
This is the introduction to John Dorney’s new book, published by New Island Books. It is a general history and overview of the Irish Revolution. You can buy a copy here from the publishers for €19.99...
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Did Captain Rock spring from the Hedge Schools? – Popular education and...
An agrarian disturbance in 19th century Ireland, as locals stone a military eviction party. Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the...
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Book Review: Ground Truths, British Army Operations in the Irish War of...
Title: Ground Truths: British Army Operations in the Irish War of Independence Author: W.H. Kautt Publisher: Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2014 ISBN: 978-0-71653-220-0 Price: Available from the...
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People’s College Irish Revolution talks, 7 and 8
In the last of our series of lectures with the People’s College on the Irish Revolution of 1912-1923 in the spring of 2014, here are the talks number 7 and 8. Talks 1-3 are here and 4-6 are here....
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Dublin and Cork during the First World War
A recruiting notice advertising the benefits of ‘separation pay’. This is a conversation between historians John Borgonovo and Padraig Yeates on two Irish cities, Dublin and Cork during the First World...
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Book Review: A Question of Duty, The Curragh Incident 1914
By Paul O’Brien Published by New Island Press, 2014 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 978-1-84840-314-7 PB €12.99 (160PP) In April 2014, a Ukrainian government, provisionally established after the overthrow...
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First Daffodil Day organised by Irish feminists, April 100 years ago
Conor Mulvagh on a little known piece of Dublin history: the first daffodil day, which was for women’s suffrage rather than (as today) for cancer research, 24-25 April 1914, exactly concurrent with...
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What to do about the past?
British soldiers look on at burned out houses in Belfast in the early years of the Troubles. John Dorney on the past, present and future of conflict resolution in Ireland. Some of us, upon some months...
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Book Review: ‘War in the Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians who bombed...
Author: Shane Kenna Publisher: Merion, Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2014 Reviewer: Maeve Casserly ‘War in the Shadows’ is an investigation into the workings of the Irish-American attempts to bomb...
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Never Lukewarm: Séumas Robinson’s War of Independence
Seumas Robinson, Sean Treacy, Dan Breen and Michael Brennan. (Courtesy of Irish Volunteer website). Daniel Murray on Seumas Robinson, commander the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade in the War of...
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‘An Abundance of First Class Recruits’, The GAA and the Irish Volunteers 1913-15
A Gaelic football match in the early 20th century, (Courtesy of GAA Museum). Richard McElligott on the Gaelic Athletic Association and the founding of the Irish Volunteers. The recent centenary of...
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Film Review: Jimmy’s Hall
Film: Jimmy’s Hall. Production Company: Sixteen Films and Element Productions. Director: Ken Loach Release date: 30th May 2014. Reviewer: Cathal Brennan Jimmy’s Hall is the new film from Ken Loach...
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