What to do about the past?
John Dorney on the past, present and future of conflict resolution in Ireland. Some of us, upon some months ago, hearing of …
Book Review: ‘The Republic – The Fight for Irish Independence.’
By: Charles Townshend Publisher: Allen Lane, 2013 Price: €27.99 Reviewer: Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Forty years ago Charles Townshend’s first book …
Opinion: Commemorating Kilmichael
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the pitfalls of commemorating the Kilmichael ambush. The Southern Star newspaper recently reported (3rd August 2013) that Cork …
Missing In Action – British Servicemen Secretly Buried In Clare During The War of Independence
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc investigates the disappearance of four British Servicemen in county Clare in 1920-21. As we approach the centenaries of …
‘A long and oddly intertwined history’ – Irish nationalism and Zionism
Aidan Beatty explores the historical links between Irish and Jewish nationalism In Easter 1903, the city of Kishinev, in what is now Moldova, …
British Military Involvement in the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney In recent weeks, (November 2012) there has been a flurry of controversy over the recovery, in the Imperial …
Opinion: Remembering World War I in Ireland
An opinion piece on Ireland, the Great War and its memory. By John Dorney. For more articles on WWI and Ireland see …