Attorney General versus Tom Barry: The Curious Tale of Tom and the Tommy Gun
By Aaron Ó Maonaigh On 4 May 1934 the contemporary press reported that Thomas ‘Tom’ Barry, ‘one of the most famed and …
Civil War casualties in County Wicklow, 1922-1923
By Aaron Ó Maonaigh This article is part of an ongoing project to count the dead of the Irish Civil War of …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …
Book Review: Irish women and nationalism: soldiers, new women and wicked hags
By Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds) Published by Irish Academic Press. (Newbridge, 2019) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Originally published in …
The death of Volunteer Seán Doyle: ‘A conflict of testimony’’
By Aaron Ó Maonaigh On 19 September 1920, Seán Doyle of the 4th Battalion, Dublin Brigade’s engineering section was shot and killed …
Book Review: From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3295-6 By Donnacha O Beacháin Published by Manchester University Press (2018) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh The spectre of Brexit hangs over …
The Killurin ambush 1922 and the Civil War in Wexford
The Killurin train ambush, July 1922 and the outbreak of civil war in County Wexford. By Aaron Ó Maonaigh The Irish Civil …