The Making of the Irish Border, 1912-1925, a Short History
By John Dorney On a recent visit to Clones County Monaghan, coming from Cavan town, I had to travel six times across …
Book Review:Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, suffragette and Sinn-Feiner: her memoirs and political writings
By Margaret Ward (ed.) Published by UCD Press (2017) Reviewer: Fionnuala Walsh ‘Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, I would say, was the ablest of …
Book Review: Proclaiming a Republic: Ireland, 1916 and the National Collection,
By Darragh Gannon (with contributions by Sandra Heise, Brenda Malone and Pádraig Clancy) Published by Irish Academic Press, (Newbridge, Co. Kildare: 2016) …
Opinion: Did the Easter Rising kill Home Rule?
By John Dorney It is often argued that the Easter Rising of 1916 killed the compromise settlement of Home Rule, derailed political …
Travelling the Same Road? Arthur Griffith & The IRB, pre-1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith’s long and often tortuous relationship with the Irish Republican Brotherhood up to 1916. By 1905, the journalist …
Book review: The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running: Recollections and Documents
The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running: Recollections and Documents Edited by F.X Martin, (Dublin, Merrion Press, 2014). E17.95. Reviewer: Gerard Madden …
Book Review: The Irish Revolution: Tyrone 1912-23
Title: The Irish Revolution 1912-23, TYRONE Author: Fergal McCluskey ISBN: 978-1-84682-300-8 Price: €19.95 (cheaper via publisher’s website) Publisher: Four Courts Press Published: Dublin, …