Podcast: Elections in Ireland from Middle Ages to Penal Laws
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the origins of the Irish Parliament from its foundation in the medieval lordship through the early …
Podcast: The General Election of 1923
In August 1923 the Irish Free State had its first general election after the Irish Civil War. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney …
Podcast: The 1927 election, John Jinks and the Collapse of the Fifth Dail
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the (almost) pivotal Irish election of 1927 and its aftermath. Also listen on the Irish History …
The ‘State will Perish’: Comparing the Elections of 1932 and 2020
By John Dorney In the wake of the February 2020 Irish elections, former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams compared that party’s success …
Podcast: The 1918 election
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the historic election of 1918. We discuss: Politics in Ireland before 1918, the restricted franchise, Home …
Dreaming of an “Irish Tet Offensive”: Irish Republican prisoners and the origins of the Peace Process
By Dieter Reinisch January 30 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the “Tet offensive” in 1968 by North Vietnam …
Today in Irish History, 31 July 1922 – Harry Boland is killed
By John Dorney On July 31, 1922, men in the green uniform of the Irish Free State entered the Grand Hotel, in …