Book Reviews: Pro-Franco Irish in the Spanish Civil War
Crusade in Spain, by Eoin O’Duffy & Michael McCormack, 1938, republished 2019, Reconquista Press Salamanca Diaries, Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil …
The Plantation of Ulster: A Brief Overview
By John Dorney The Plantation of Ulster was the project by the English monarchy to colonise the northern province of Ireland with …
Podcast: the Ulster Plantation
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History …
Sir Charles McCarthy, from Wild Geese to West Africa
By John Dorney On 21 January 1824, Charles McCarthy, a British officer and Governor of the Sierra Leone and Gold Coast colonies, …
Book Review: A Year of Glory and Gold 1932- Ireland’s Jazz Age
By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social …
Nixie Boran and Communism in interwar Ireland
By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …
Thomas D’Arcy McGee – The Irish revolutionary who was one of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation
By John Joe McGinley Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a journalist, author, poet, politician and Irish revolutionary, who is now recognised as one …