Invisible Income – Remittances from the Diaspora sustained Ireland for over a century
By Evan Comerford When interviewed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1955, an elderly Galway farmer recalled vividly the neighbours from his …
‘Neither very good nor very bad’: The Dunmanway workhouse, County Cork 1841-1920
By John Dorney The workhouse was the last recourse of the poor in nineteenth century Ireland. In return for work, those otherwise …
Film Review: Black 47
Directed by Lance Daly Written by PJ Dillon, Pierce Ryan, Euguene O’Brien, Lance Daly Starring: Hugo Weaving, James Frechville, Stephen Rea, Jim …
The Great Irish Famine 1845-1851 – A Brief Overview
By John Dorney. See our other overviews here. The Great Famine was a disaster that hit Ireland between 1845 and about 1851, …
Nora’s Sorrow – The Murder of John Foran, 1888
The murder of a ‘land-grabber’ and the Land War in Kerry. By Mark Holan A thunderstorm swept across Pittsburgh in the early …
Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh -The Limbless Landlord
Brian Igoe looks at the career of an extraordinary 19th century landlord and his times. This is a summary of the little …
Book Review: Liberator –The Life and Death of Daniel O’Connell
Liberator –The Life and Death of Daniel O’Connell 1830-1847 By Patrick M. Geoghegan. Gill &Macmillan, 2010 Reviewer: John Dorney Patrick Geoghegan opens this …