‘Conducive to the improvement of the country’, The Coolattin Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate, County Wicklow
By John Dorney Coolattin estate, located in southern County Wicklow, once sprawled across nearly half of the county, taking in thousands of …
The Decade of Centenaries: A Reflection
By John Dorney The ‘decade of commemorations’, the series of hundred year anniversaries of the momentous events that marked the independence struggle …
Podcast: Cormac Moore on the Partition of Ireland
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Cormac Moore on the partition of Ireland, 100 years ago. First broadcast on The Irish History …
The Making of the Irish Border, 1912-1925, a Short History
By John Dorney On a recent visit to Clones County Monaghan, coming from Cavan town, I had to travel six times across …
Book Review: Dublin’s Great Wars
Dublin’s Great Wars, The First World War, The Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution By Richard Grayson Published By Cambridge University Press, …
Podcast: The 1918 election
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the historic election of 1918. We discuss: Politics in Ireland before 1918, the restricted franchise, Home …
The Strange History of the term ‘Tory’ in Ireland
By John Dorney In a famous scene of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, set in turn of the twentieth century Dublin, the protagonist Stephen …