Book Review: No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry
by Owen O’Shea Merrion Press, Newbridge 2022. ISBN97817835374333 Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald In the summer of 1922 Free State army commanders Michael …
Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with the IRA, 1922-1947
By Gerard Lovett Published by Eastwood Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1-913934-29-3 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of …
TV documentary reviews: The Irish Civil War and Marú in Íarthar Chorcaí
The Irish Civil War Directed by Ruan Mangan Reviewer: Thomas Tormey Airing on RTÉ One over the nights of 11,12,13 December and …
‘One Irregular was killed’: The death of John Lawlor of Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, 31 October 1922.
By Bryan MacMahon Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, has received very little attention from national or even local historians of the revolutionary years of …
‘He Died as a Prince’: Erskine Childers: Executed November 1922
By John Dorney Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. …
Review: Burning the Big House, the Story of the Irish Country house in Time of War and Revolution
By Terence Dooley Published by Yale University Press, New Haven 2022 Reviewer: John Dorney Terence Dooley has devoted much of his …
The Media War: Robert Erskine Childers in West Cork
By Anthony Barrett An important aspect of the Irish Civil War was the use of propaganda in the media by both sides …