Remembering Patrick O’Donnell: The Man who Avenged the Invincibles
By John Joe McGinley Patrick O’Donnell from the parish of Gaoth Dobhair in County Donegal was hanged at New Gate prison on …
Book Review: Out of the Ashes, an oral history of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement
By Robert W. White Published by Merrion Press, 2017. Reviewer: John Dorney Robert White is an American sociologist, who over 30 years …
The Molly Maguires
On the latest edition of the Irish History Show on Near FM John Dorney and I, Cathal Brennan, were very pleased to …
TV documentary Review: In the Name of the Republic
Broadcast TV3, 18 and 25 March 2013. Tile Films 2013. Reviewer: John Dorney In this programme Eunan O’Halpin, who has spent …
The Invincibles and the Phoenix Park killings
Shane Kenna tells the story of the militant underground Fenian group – The Invincibles of the 1880s and their assassination of the Chief Secretary …
Today in Irish History – First Day of the 1641 Rebellion, October 23
~1641~ John Dorney looks at the outbreak of one of the bloodiest and most tragic rebellions in Irish history -the 1641 Rebellion. …