Podcast: Bram Stoker and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832
Dr Marian McGarry and Dr Fiona Gallagher speak to Cathal Brennan and John Dorney about how the great cholera epidemic of 1832 …
Today in Irish History – 21st July 1920: The Start of the “Belfast Pogrom”
By Kieran Glennon. In the middle of July 1920, thousands of “disloyal” workers in Belfast were driven out of their workplaces by …
Podcast: Youth culture and Loyalist paramilitaries with Gareth Mulvenna
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview historian Gareth Mulvenna on his work on how 1960s 70s Protestant youth culture in Belfast – …
‘Worthy successor of Tone and Casement’? Seán Russell and the IRA, (Part Two, 1931-40)
By Gerard Shannon. This is the second in a two-part article, the first can be found here. On Sunday, 9th September 1951, …
Revisiting the ‘Limerick Pogrom’ of 1904
By Seán William Gannon On the evening of 11 January 1904, Fr John Creagh took the pulpit during mass at the Redemptorist …
‘The only Irishman that was incorruptible’: Seán Russell and the IRA (Part One, 1893-1930)
By Gerard Shannon. This is the first in a two-part article. It was a grim, low-key farewell. On August 14th 1940, roughly …