David Tormey: IRA Volunteer, Garda, Nazi.
By Brian Hanley During October 1946 the Fine Gael TD and former Longford IRA leader Seán MacEoin received an appeal for help. …
Book Review: A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1980-1989 Volume 2
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by Merrion Press Reviewed by Dr Robert Collins In volume one of the above title, author Gearóid …
Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with the IRA, 1922-1947
By Gerard Lovett Published by Eastwood Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1-913934-29-3 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of …
Book Review: Republicanism, Crime and paramilitary policing in Ireland 1916-2020
By Brian Hanley Published by Cork University Press, Cork, 2022 ISBN: 9781782055471 Reviewer: John Dorney This book is the first in a new …
‘They were determined to obtain a sacrifice’: First Irish state executions of IRA members since the Civil War
By Gerard Shannon It was the night of 16 August 1940 and a worried Christy Quearney cycled through Dublin city’s southside. Quearney, …
Book Review: Soldiering Against Subversion
Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security during the Troubles, 1969-1998 By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press (2018) …
“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 …