The death of Volunteer Seán Doyle: ‘A conflict of testimony’’
By Aaron Ó Maonaigh On 19 September 1920, Seán Doyle of the 4th Battalion, Dublin Brigade’s engineering section was shot and killed …
Today in Irish History – August 1, 1915, ‘The fools, the fools’, O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral
An important milestone on the road to the Rising of 1916. By John Dorney. In August 1915, a volley of rifle shots …
“The principal rallying-ground for the Larkinites” – The Swords Riot of 1913
Christopher Lee, author of a previous article on Finglas in the Lockout, looks at the great strike of 1913 in the County …
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 …