Book Review:Liam Mellows, Soldier of the Irish Republic ~ Selected Writings, 1914–1922
By Conor McNamara Published by Irish Academic Press, 2019 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain It has been nearly half a century since iconic …
Book Review: The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire
By Shane Kenna Published by The O’Brien Press, 2019 ISBN: 9781788490603 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain In the days after reading this …
Book Review: Conspirators: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Revolutionary Underground
By Shane Kenna Published by Mercier Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781781173541 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain Conspirators: a photographic history of Ireland’s revolutionary underground …
‘Calculated to excite the minds of the public’: South Ulster and the Young Ireland Rebellion 1848
July 2018 marks the 170th anniversary of the 1848 Young Ireland Rising. This article explores Irish Confederate activism in south Ulster, 1848, …
‘To get up an anti-Fenian society in this country’: Ribbonism and republicanism in Ulster, 1850-1867.
Rival forms of popular Irish nationalism in 19th century Ulster. By Kerron Ó Luain Founded in Dublin and New York on …
‘A policy of Passive Resistance’: Sinn Féin and Abstentionism – an historical overview
For over 100 years now, elected Irish Republican politicians have refused to take their seats in the British Parliament. Kerron Ó Luain …