Rathfarnham: a short history
By John Dorney The Dublin mountains look down on Rathfarnham, once a rural village and now a sprawling suburb, creeping slowly up …
Book Review: A Portrait of West-County Down
A Portrait of West-County Down Past and Present: An Exploration of Landscape, Population, Worship and Diversity. By Dr Francis Xavier McCorry Reviewer: …
Remembering the Lockout
Remembering the Dublin Lockout, one hundred years on. By John Dorney The Lockout of 1913, the great strike that brought Dublin …
A stroll through Jewish Dublin
A glance at part of Dublin’s past and present, by John Dorney. The South Circular Road in Dublin looks like what you’d …
The Great Southern Railway Strike of 1911
John Dorney reports from a talk by Conor McCabe of the Labour History Society on the Railway strike of 1911. In late …