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 …
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 …
Book Reviews: A Bloody Day and Bloody Night, The Irish at Waterloo and Rorke’s Drift
A Bloody Day – The Irish At Waterloo by Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2017 ISBN: 9780993114359 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan …
Book review: Fighting Irish – The Irish Regiments in the First World War
By Gavin Hughes, Published by Merrion Press Reviewer: Kieran Glennon This is a book of ambitious scale. Most studies of Ireland’s …
Robert Emmet, the 1803 Proclamation of Independence and the ghost of 1798
Maeve Casserly examines the thinking of Robert Emmet, architect of the 1803 rebellion. In 1803 in Dublin, Robert Emmet and a small …
Daniel O’Connell’s Childhood.
Brian Igoe looks at ‘The Liberator’s’ early years. It was an August Sunday, the 6th day of that month in 1775, the …
Today In Irish History – Napper Tandy’s Rutland Island Landing, 16 September
~1798~ On this day some 212 years ago, James Napper Tandy landed on Rutland Island with a mixed force of French and …