The Plantation of Ulster: A Brief Overview
By John Dorney The Plantation of Ulster was the project by the English monarchy to colonise the northern province of Ireland with …
Podcast: the Ulster Plantation
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History …
The UCC Civil War Fatality Project – Counting the dead of the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney During fighting between pro and anti-Treaty forces in Limerick city in July 1922, Catherine Sexton was penned in her …
Shunned. Ostracised. Excommunicated … Boycotted. The tribulations of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott
By Myles Dungan ‘Mayo people do not steal, and if they shot a stranger, it would only be by mistake for a …
Book Review: Shifting Sentiment: Press Opinion in Ireland’s Revolutionary Decade 1914-23”
By Dermot Meleady Published by Wordwell Press, 2023 Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll ISBN: 9781913934347 From a contemporary perspective, living in the Ireland which …
The Irish Volunteers of the Eighteenth Century: Successfully Importing the Gun into Irish politics.
By Ruairi Nolan The Volunteers of the eighteenth century were a group which embodied a rising Irish nationalism which predated that which …
Book Review: Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations, A History
By Niall Cullen Published by Routledge, 2024 Reviewer: John Dorney Minority national causes have often looked to each other for inspiration and …