Today In Irish History, The Opening Of The Irish Convention, 25 June 1917
By Eoin Purcell. Today marks the anniversary of an event that is largely forgotten in Irish history. It’s forgotten, mostly because it …
Today in Irish History, The Truce, 11 July 1921
John Dorney remembers the last day of the Irish War of Independence
Today in Irish History, April 30, 1916, The Surrender in the Easter Rising
Over April 29th to May 1, 1916 the rebels of the Easter Rising surrendered. This is an adapted extract from John Dorney’s The Story of the …
Today in Irish History, April 26, 1916, The battle at Mount Street Bridge
In an adapted extract from, The Story of the Easter Rising, John Dorney describes the bloody fighting at Mount Street Bridge during …
Today in Irish History, April 24, 1916, The First Day of the Easter Rising
John Dorney tells the story of one of the most celebrated days in Irish history. An introduction to the Rising is here. …
Today in Irish History –The Fenian Rebellion, March 5, 1867
John Dorney on the abortive republican insurrection of 1867. Very early on the morning of March 5th 1867, many thousands of young …
Today in Irish History – The Upton Ambush, February 15 1921.
On this day, in west Cork, in 1921, at least eleven people were killed in a vicious ten-minute firefight at Upton train station …