Padraig Lenihan on the Battle of Aughrim
Historian Padraig Lenihan talks about the battle of Aughrim, fought on the 12th of July 1691, the bloodiest battle in Irish …
The Anti-Jazz Campaign
Cathal Brennan looks at why Jazz music was once thought to be ‘the greatest danger to Irish civilisation.’ In the wake of …
Book Review: A Hard Local War
Book Review: A Hard Local War, The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921 by William Sheehan Spellmount 2011 Reviewer: …
The Big House and the Irish Revolution
John Dorney looks at the burning of the Big Houses in the Irish Revolution of 1919-23. Late on January 29, 1923, Lady Mayo …
The Irish VC, An Alternative Narrative Of Irish History
John Dennehy looks at the impact of one man on Irish life during World War One. The British assault on the Turks …
Ellen MacCarthy – The Survivor
John Dorney looks at the life of Ellen MacCarthy, who survived the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ireland. And her marriage. It is …
‘Slaves or Freemen?’ Sean McDermott, the IRB and the psychology of the Easter Rising
Sean McDermott has been described as, “the mind behind the Easter Rising”. He wrote that he was “never so happy” as when …