‘Let it be Under our Thumb’ – the History of the Seanad
A brief history of the Irish Senate, By John Dorney. In a recent (October 2013) referendum, the Irish electorate voted not to …
Book Review: Locked Out – A Century of Irish Working Class Life
Editor: David Convery Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2013. Price: €24.95 or less from the publisher Reviewer: John Dorney There was a time when …
Weapons of his own Forging: Edward Nangle, Controversial in Life and in Death
Patricia Byrne writes about an intriguing character and the impact of Protestant missionary work on Achill Island in the 19th Century. One …
Today in Irish History – August 31, 1913 – Labour’s Bloody Sunday
The first ‘Bloody Sunday’ in twentieth century Ireland, during the Lockout of 1913. By John Dorney See also Remembering the Lockout. It …
Remembering the Lockout
Remembering the Dublin Lockout, one hundred years on. By John Dorney The Lockout of 1913, the great strike that brought Dublin …
Opinion: Commemorating Kilmichael
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the pitfalls of commemorating the Kilmichael ambush. The Southern Star newspaper recently reported (3rd August 2013) that Cork …
The Rabble and the Republic
John Dorney looks at how the Irish separatist movement interacted with the population of the Dublin slums during the years of the Great War …