Interview: Joe Connell on Michael Collins
John Dorney talks to historian Joe Connell about Michael Collins. We talk about: Collins’ military and political abilities. How his charismatic personality …
Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland
By Patricia Byrne Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2018 ISBN: 9781785371721 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “His was a crusade that failed to touch …
Brian Hanley on the General Election of 1918
Historian Brian Hanley speaks at the People’s College Dublin about the historic 1918 election in which Sinn Fein won an overall majority …
Irish Clans in the Sixteenth century
By John Dorney The word clan seems to have entered English via Scots Gaelic, where it was used to describe the social …
Book Review – Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
By Mark Williams. Published by Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 608. €36.99. ISBN 978-0691157313. Reviewer Caroline Hurley I could have done …
The Irish Parliamentary Party after 1918, an interview with Martin O’Donoghue
In this interview, John Dorney speaks to Martin O’Donoghue about the fate of the once-dominant Irish Parliamentary Party after its defeat in …
‘Whose idea was it?’ State Policy, Clerical Abuse and the Intellectually Disabled in 1950s Ireland
The roots of clerical control over care for disabled children in Ireland. By David Kilgannon ‘They took the liberty of doing …