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Podcast: The Desmond rebellions

Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Desmond rebellions of the late sixteenth century in Munster First broadcast on The Irish History …

The Tunnellers of Mountjoy,1923

By Christopher Lee. In 1923, after days of heavy rain the ground around the Mountjoy Prison blocks became sodden. An armoured car …