Sir Charles McCarthy, from Wild Geese to West Africa
By John Dorney On 21 January 1824, Charles McCarthy, a British officer and Governor of the Sierra Leone and Gold Coast colonies, …
The Decade of Centenaries: A Reflection
By John Dorney The ‘decade of commemorations’, the series of hundred year anniversaries of the momentous events that marked the independence struggle …
Book Review: A Year of Glory and Gold 1932- Ireland’s Jazz Age
By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social …
The Irish Story Top Ten articles of 2023
Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers and contributors! These were our top ten most read articles of 2023. Top Ten …
Book Review: The Irish Defence Forces, 1922-2022
By Eoin Kinsella, Published by: Four Courts Press, (2023), 360 pp. ISBN: 9781801510363 Reviewer: Jack Kavanagh Eoin Kinsella’s study of the …
John ‘Old Smoke’ Morrissey the man who ordered the death of Bill ‘the Butcher’ Poole.
By John Joe McGinley One of the most famous characters who inhabited the violent landscape of the Five Points Irish enclave …
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 …