‘Trampling the rights of a free people’: Coercion in Nineteenth Century Ireland
By John Dorney According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act …
‘The Irish National Invincibles, The Phoenix Park Killings and their Times.’
Report on the Conference Organised by Shane Kenna, Dublin, May 16th, 2013. By John Dorney. You can read a longer article by …
The Invincibles and the Phoenix Park killings
Shane Kenna tells the story of the militant underground Fenian group – The Invincibles of the 1880s and their assassination of the Chief Secretary …
Today in Irish History, The Repeal Meeting at Clontarf is Banned, 8 October 1843
John Dorney remembers the day that Daniel O’Connell’s agitation for Repeal of the Union between Britain and Ireland was halted in …