Today in Irish History, 22 June 1922 – The assassination of Henry Wilson
The killing of a British Field Marshal that helped to spark the Irish Civil War. By John Dorney The assassination On June …
Casualties of the Irish Civil War in County Cork
Counting the cost of the Civil War in County Cork. By John Dorney This article is an attempt to count the fatal …
A Civil War as a sort of side-show? Partisan politics in the Irish Free State and the Eucharistic Congress of 1932
Barry Sheppard on a moment in Irish history when national and religious identity appeared mired in political conflict. In 1932 Dublin was …
Deliberate Amnesia? The Irish Volunteers’ plan to assassinate the British Cabinet, 1918.
The plan to wipe out the British government in 1918 and the subsequent attempt to forget it ever existed. By Fergus O’Farrell …
Podcast: Assassination and Execution, Ireland December 1922
Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on the assassination of Sean Hales and the reprisal executions of Rory O’Connor, Dick Barret, Lam Mellow …
Book Review: ‘War in the Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians who bombed Victorian Britain’
Title: War In The Shadows: The Irish-Americans Who Bombed Victorian Britain Author: Shane Kenna ISBN: 978-1-90892-802-3 Price: €24.95 (Cheaper from the publisher’s …
Who was Seamus Dwyer?
Michael McKenna tells the forgotten story of the life and death of Seamus Dwyer, Sinn Fein and IRA activist and pro-Treaty politician, …