Book Review: Voices from the Easter Rising
By Ruán O’Donnell and Micheál O hAodha Published by Merrion Press, Dublin 2016. Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll Ruán O’Donnell and Micheál O hAodha’s …
Episode at Easter – The 1916 Rising in Louth
In the midst of the recent centenary commemorations many local contributions to the Rising have started to come to light. One such …
“Don’t tell your mother or I’ll kill you.” The murder of baby William Holden, 1923.
Colm Wallace tells the story of a shocking crime in rural Kilkenny in April 1923. After the Civil War finished the Irish …
The Helga and the shelling of Liberty hall
By Michael Barry. In researching my book ‘Courage Boys, We are Winning, an Illustrated History of the 1916 Rising’, I came across …
Airbrushed out of history? Elizabeth O’Farrell and Patrick Pearse’s surrender, 1916.
Michael Barry, author of ‘Courage Boys We are Winning’, a photographic history of the 1916 Rising, examines a famous image to see …
The Burning of the Big Houses Revisited 1920-23
By John Dorney The very name ‘Big House’ has a certain resonance in Irish historical memory. The Big House was the citadel …
Sieges and Shootings: The decline of the RIC in Westmeath, 1920
Daniel Murray looks at how a combination of political pressure, resignations and armed attacks by the IRA undermined the Royal Irish Constabulary …