The North King Street Massacre, Dublin 1916
Sixteen civilians were shot or bayoneted to death by soldiers from the South Staffordshire regiment during the Easter Rising. By John Dorney.(Updated …
Today in Irish History, Bloody Sunday in Derry, 30 January 1972
The fatal shooting of 13 unarmed demonstrators by the British Army in Derry in 1972. By John Dorney. See also Four Bloody …
Today in Irish History, Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920
November 21, 1920. A day of bloodshed in Dublin marked the escalation of the Irish War of Independence. By John Dorney. See …
Today in Irish History, April 26, 1916, The battle at Mount Street Bridge
In an adapted extract from, The Story of the Easter Rising, John Dorney describes the bloody fighting at Mount Street Bridge during …
March 1923 – The Terror Month
March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what …
Today in Irish History – The Upton Ambush, February 15 1921.
On this day, in west Cork, in 1921, at least eleven people were killed in a vicious ten-minute firefight at Upton train station …
Four Bloody Sundays
In the wake of the Saville Report on the events in Derry in 1972, John Dorney looks at the place of “Bloody …