The Irish Story Top Ten articles 2020
Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers and contributors. It’s been an eventful year with world pandemic and a series of …
The Whitefeet: Social Conflict in Kilkenny and Laois Before the Famine
By Terry Dunne There is a great sense of prescience to what English Radical M.P. George Poulet Scrope wrote eleven years before …
Podcast: Tom Barry and the Kilmichael ambush
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss Tom Barry and the Kilmichael Ambush of November 1920. First Broadcast on the Irish History Show. …
Canon James McFadden – The fighting priest of Gweedore
By John Joe McGinley Canon James McFadden was a man of deep faith who fought for the rights of his parishioners against …
‘Are You With Me’? Interview with Mike Chinoy on Kevin Boyle and Human Rights
First broadcast on The Irish History Show, Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak with Mike Chinoy on human rights activists Kevin Boyle. …
Book Review: A Difficult Birth: The Early Years of Northern Ireland 1920-25
By Alan Parkinson Published by Eastwood Books (2020) Reviewer: Kieran Glennon Alan Parkinson’s 2004 book, Belfast’s Unholy War: The Twenties’ Troubles, …
Tom Barry and the Road from Mesopotamia to Kilmichael
By John Dorney In 1915, aged 17, Thomas Bernadine Barry enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in Cork, as he recalled in …