‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in …
Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in a national munitions strike, refusing …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …
The Italian arms importation scheme, 1920-1921
How the clandestine Irish Republic attempted to buy arms from Italian ultra-nationalist leader Gabriele D’Annunzio. By Jack Traynor As the guerrilla campaign …
Podcast: Dublin in the War of Independence with Liz Gillis and James Brady
John Dorney speaks to Liz Gillis and James Brady about the IRA in Dublin city and County during the Irish War of …
Some Thoughts on the Truce – 100 Years On
By John Dorney Today, July 11, 2021, marks 100 years since the final day of the Irish War of Independence. A Truce, …
Book Review: Ballymacandy, The Story of Kerry Ambush
By Owen O’Shea Published by Merrion Press, 2020 ISBN 9781785373879, Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Irish history writing is often a site of …