Book Review: Sleep Soldier Sleep
Sleep Soldier Sleep – The Life and Times of Padraig O’Connor By Diarmuid O’Connor and Frank Connolly Miseab Publications 2011 Reviewer: John …
The Home Front – Dublin and World War I
Padraig Yeates, author of, ‘A City in Wartime’, a new book on Dublin during the First World War, talks about the impact the war …
Historical Perspective – the first day of the 31st Dail
John Dorney looks at TDs’ evocations of history at the opening of the 31st Dail. The opening of the 31st Dail marked …
Today in Irish History – The Upton Ambush, February 15 1921.
On this day, in west Cork, in 1921, at least eleven people were killed in a vicious ten-minute firefight at Upton train station …
A TV Pageant – The Golden Jubilee Commemorations of the 1916 Rising
Cathal Brennan looks at RTE’s commmorations of the 1916 Easter Rising in 1966. The 50th anniversary commemoration for the 1916 Rising was …
The 1641 Depositions go online
John Dorney reports from the launch of the 1641 Depositions online at Trinity College Some time in the winter of 1641, Anne …
Book Review: The Republican – An Irish Civil War Story
The Republican, an Irish Civil War Story by TS O’Rourke Reviewer: John Dorney History, Napoleon Bonaparte once mused, is nothing more than …