The death of Thomas Keating: A Civil War Killing in Waterford
By David Prendergast On April 11th 1923, Thomas Keating, the 30-year-old guerrilla commandant of the Waterford IRA 2nd Battalion, was trekking through the …
Book Review: Rewriting the Troubles, War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria
By Patrick Anderson Reviewer: Donal Hassett Published by Greenisland Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-3949573026 Patrick Anderson’s Rewriting the Troubles is engaging and frustrating …
‘Lives Illuminated’ a glimpse at Irish-Jewish history
By John Dorney An exhibition in Stratford College, part of a project by their Transition year students, aided by as Saul Woulfson …
Book Review: Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic
By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a …
Al Smith, the man who wanted to be president but helped build the Empire state building instead.
By John Joe McGinley As President Joe Biden whose ancestors hail from Ballina in Co Mayo and the Cooley Peninsula in Co …
‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne
Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian agitation, land reform and political upheaval in Ireland from 1919 to 1923. First aired …