Book Reviews: Pro-Franco Irish in the Spanish Civil War
Crusade in Spain, by Eoin O’Duffy & Michael McCormack, 1938, republished 2019, Reconquista Press Salamanca Diaries, Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil …
Civil War Casualties in County Limerick 1922-1923
By John Dorney This article is part of an ongoing project to count the dead of the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. …
A Civil War as a sort of side-show? Partisan politics in the Irish Free State and the Eucharistic Congress of 1932
Barry Sheppard on a moment in Irish history when national and religious identity appeared mired in political conflict. In 1932 Dublin was …
‘God’s Battle’: O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
The Irish unit that fought for Franco in 1936-37. By John Dorney In late 1936, a young unemployed Dubliner, Seamus MacKee, was …
‘We must forgive but we won’t forget’ – The Treaty debates in the border counties.
How was the Anglo-Irish Treaty received in the counties it made a frontier zone? By John Dorney. If you lived in the …
‘As a Gael should meet Gaels’ – The Gaelic Athletic Association in the Irish Free State
The GAA saw itself as the true representative of the Irish nation at play. Barry Sheppard investigates how it fared in …
The Blueshirts – fascism in Ireland?
This is a discussion on Near Fm’s History Show of the Blueshirts and fascism an anti-fascism in 1930s Ireland. Presented by Cathal Brennan …