THE PATTERSONS: AN IRISH FAMILY ODYSSEY
William Marmion on one family’s journey across continents and through Irish and American history in the 19th century. Major General Robert …
Daniel O’Connell and the Young Irelanders
Irish nationalist disunity and the rise of physical force nationalism, 1842-1846, by Eoin O’Driscoll On the 11 July 1846 Daniel O’Connell presented …
What to do about the past?
John Dorney on the past, present and future of conflict resolution in Ireland. Some of us, upon some months ago, hearing of …
Did Captain Rock spring from the Hedge Schools? – Popular education and militant politics in 1820s Ireland
Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the 1820s. Between 1821 …
Robert Emmet, the 1803 Proclamation of Independence and the ghost of 1798
Maeve Casserly examines the thinking of Robert Emmet, architect of the 1803 rebellion. In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small …
The Wicklow Mountains and cycling through the past.
John Dorney takes a two wheeled journey through the Wicklow mountains’ past and present. See also a journey though the Pale. In …
A Pale trip through history
A two-wheeled journey through the Pale. By John Dorney. I rode my bike from south Dublin to Carlingford in the Cooley peninsula …