‘Worthy successor of Tone and Casement’? Seán Russell and the IRA, (Part Two, 1931-40)
By Gerard Shannon. This is the second in a two-part article, the first can be found here. On Sunday, 9th September 1951, …
Rathfarnham: a short history
By John Dorney The Dublin mountains look down on Rathfarnham, once a rural village and now a sprawling suburb, creeping slowly up …
Colliding worlds? Shane the Proud and the advance of the Tudors in Ireland
By John Dorney In 1562, Shane O’Neill, lord of the powerful O’Neill dynasty in Ulster, arrived at the Court of Queen Elizabeth …
Rebel Heart – a coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Irish revolution
By Alison Martin Recently, the series Resistance, based on the Irish War of Independence has aired on Irish national broadcaster RTE. In …
“De Valera’s other Ireland?” The Irish Free State and Scottish nationalism, 1922-39
By Timothy Ellis. Over the summer, as I was working in an archive, I found a rather interesting cartoon. It depicted a …
The Second Amendment’s Irish Link
By William E. Devlin Does the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have an Irish connection? The answer is a qualified …
Deliberate Amnesia? The Irish Volunteers’ plan to assassinate the British Cabinet, 1918.
The plan to wipe out the British government in 1918 and the subsequent attempt to forget it ever existed. By Fergus O’Farrell …