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 …
‘A faithful soldier of the Republic’: The story of Jinny Shanahan
By John Dorney In 1916, during the Easter insurrection in Dublin city, a young Irish Citizen Army woman was one of party …
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) …
The Irish Story Top Posts of 2013
So another year comes to a close. We’d like to thank all our contributors and readers over the past year. Below is …
‘Every Catholic workman in the city…down tools’ – Galway’s wildcat strike, 23 July 1935
Brian Hanley concludes his trio of articles on disturbances across Ireland in July 1935 with an article on a strike in Galway …
July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
July 1935 saw vicious sectarian rioting in Belfast. Here in a follow up to his article on the riot in Limerick, Brian …
A Limerick riot
Brian Hanley looks at a riot in Limerick in 1935 At about 10.30pm on the 20th July 1935, a Saturday night, …