Nixie Boran and Communism in interwar Ireland
By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …
By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …
By Ronan McGreevy The assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was an event that I have called Ireland’s Sarajevo. Just …
By John Joe McGinley Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a journalist, author, poet, politician and Irish revolutionary, who is now recognised as one …
By Michael Flavin The Birmingham pub bombings of 21st November 1974 were one of the most notorious incidents of The Troubles. …
The second in a two-part article on the Irish War of Independence in the border counties. Part one here. By John Dorney …
By Gus McKendry This article is an attempt to examine and analyse the events on the night of 28th and the early …
By Timothy Murtagh Henrietta Street has many claims to fame. Some historians have pointed to it as one of the earliest examples of …