Book review: Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s fight for Irish independence
By Terry Golway Irish Academic press 2015. Reviewer: Ruairí Ó hAodha Terry Golway is a prominent US political commentator, who in this …
The People’s College remembers 1916
The Irish Story in association with the People’s College is proud to present a series of 8 historical lectures focusing on the …
Twenty Sixteen –Commemorating the Rising – What does it all Mean?
John Dorney on the meaning of the Easter Rising centenary. In 2016, Ireland will mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. …
Conference review – “Reflections on the Revolution in Ulster: The Irish Volunteers in the North, 1913-23”
As part of an outreach programme supported by the UK Lottery’s Heritage Fund, the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive (COFLA) in …
Travelling the Same Road? Arthur Griffith & The IRB, pre-1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith’s long and often tortuous relationship with the Irish Republican Brotherhood up to 1916. By 1905, the journalist …
‘Glorious Madness’ – The Life and Death of Michael O’Rahilly
By John Dorney Friday April, 29 1916. The General Post Office in Dublin, occupied on the Monday as the headquarters of …
Book Review: Easter Widows
Easter Widows, Seven Irish Women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising. By Sinéad McCoole Published by Doubleday Ireland, 2014. …