Happy New Year to all! These are our top ten most read articles of 2024.

Top Ten Articles

1. The UCC Civil War Fatalities Project – Counting the Dead of the Irish Civil War, by John Dorney
2. The Decade of Centenaries – A Reflection, by John Dorney
3. Sir Charles McCarthy, from Wild Geese to West Africa, by John Dorney
4. The Spanish Armada, Myths and Misconceptions, by Michael Barry
5. The Plantation of Ulster, a Brief Overview, by John Dorney
6. Cora Hughes, an Irish Pasionaria, by Caroline Crowley
7. David Tormey, IRA Volunteer, Garda, Nazi, by Brian Hanley
8. Shunned, Ostracised, Execommunicated… Boycotted, The Tribulations of Captain Charels Cunningham Boycott, by Myles Dungan
9. The Irish Volunteers of the Eighteenth Century, by Ruairi Nolan
10. The Belfast Newsletter and the Irish Civil War, by John Dorney

Top Podcasts

(With The Irish History Show hosted by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney)

 

1. The McMahon Murders and the Belfast Pogroms, with Edward Burke

   

2. The Ulster Plantation 
3. The UCC Irish Civil War Fatalities Project
4. The Nine Years War
5. Gerry Healy and the Revolutionary Workers Party, with Aidan Beatty
6. The Birmingham Bombings 1974 and the Birmingham Six, with Chris Mullins and Michael Flavin
7. The 100th Irish History Show Episode
8. Irish Genealogy, with Nicola Morris

Top Book Reviews

1. Ulster’s Lost Counties, Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920, by Edward Burke, reviewed by Kieran Glennon
2. Pro-Franco Irish Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, reviewed by John Dorney
3. Shifting Sentiment, Press Opinion in Ireland’s Revolutionary Decade, by Dermot Meleady, reviewd by Eoin O’Driscoll
4. A Year of Glory and Gold, 1932 Ireland’s Jazz Age, by Kevin Kearns, revied by Sylvie Kleinman
5. Radical Basque Nationalist- Irish Republican relations, by Niall Cullen, reviewed by John Dorney

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