Belfast Riots – A Short History
In recent articles on the Irish Story, Brian Hanley has looked the effects of the 1935 Belfast riots on southern Ireland. This …
The Siege of Tralee, November 1 – 9, 1920.
John Dorney on an ugly cycle of reprisals in Kerry in the War of Independence. On 31 October 1920, the Sinn Fein Lord …
The Irish Story Archive on the Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence was a guerrilla conflict, conventionally said to have lasted from 1919-1921. It resulted in the independence of …
The Irish War of Independence – A Brief Overview
Continuing with our series of overviews and following the Overview of the Easter Rising and the Overview of the Irish Civil War, John Dorney tells the essential story …
Book Review: Frontiers of Violence
Book Review: Frontiers of Violence, Conflict and Identity in Ulster and Upper Silesia, 1918-1922. By T.K Wilson, Oxford 2010 Reviewer: …
“When Aungier Street became the Dardanelles” – Interview with James Durney
Historian James Durney talks to John Dorney and Cathal Brennan about the experience of a street in Dublin, nicknamed, “the Dardanelles” by British …
Eunan O’Halpin on the Dead of the Irish Revolution
We interview Professor Eunan O’Halpin on the project, ‘The Dead of the Irish Revolution’ – which seeks to determine, for the first …