David Tormey: IRA Volunteer, Garda, Nazi.
By Brian Hanley During October 1946 the Fine Gael TD and former Longford IRA leader Seán MacEoin received an appeal for help. …
Book Review: Free Statism & The Good Old IRA
By Danny Morrison, Published by: Greenisland Press, 2022 Reviewer: Brian Hanley ISBN 9783949573002 €17. £15. In the mid-1980s one of the …
Book Review: One Man’s Terrorist: a Political History of the IRA
By Daniel Finn, Published by: Verso Books, 2019 ISBN 978-1-78663-688-1 Reviewer: Brian Hanley The Irish Republican Army occupies a curious place …
‘Every Catholic workman in the city…down tools’ – Galway’s wildcat strike, 23 July 1935
Brian Hanley concludes his trio of articles on disturbances across Ireland in July 1935 with an article on a strike in Galway …
July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
July 1935 saw vicious sectarian rioting in Belfast. Here in a follow up to his article on the riot in Limerick, Brian …
A Limerick riot
Brian Hanley looks at a riot in Limerick in 1935 At about 10.30pm on the 20th July 1935, a Saturday night, …
Book Review: The Story of the Irish Civil War
Review: The Story of the Irish Civil War 1922-1923 by John Dorney, Green Lamp, 2010 Reviewer: Brian Hanley ‘Brother against brother’ ‘Green …