Nixie Boran and Communism in interwar Ireland
By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …
‘Riot of Plunder’: Rural revolt in May 1922
By Terry Dunne In his 1923 memoir Lord Castletown gave us a standard conservative account of the spring of 1922 – “a …
The Whitefeet: Social Conflict in Kilkenny and Laois Before the Famine
By Terry Dunne There is a great sense of prescience to what English Radical M.P. George Poulet Scrope wrote eleven years before …