The Formation of the Irish Citizen Army 1913-16
John Dorney Reports on a talk by Brian Hanley at the Smithfield People’s History Project. The Irish Citizen Army was founded in …
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 …
Remembering the Lockout
Remembering the Dublin Lockout, one hundred years on. By John Dorney The Lockout of 1913, the great strike that brought Dublin …
“The principal rallying-ground for the Larkinites” – The Swords Riot of 1913
Christopher Lee, author of a previous article on Finglas in the Lockout, looks at the great strike of 1913 in the County …
The General Strike and Irish independence
How the syndicalist idea of a general strike contributed to the independence of Ireland. By John Dorney In the late 19th and …
The History Show Archive Part II: Episodes 8-16
This is the second part of our archive of Near FM’s History Show, presented by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney. The first …
Body and Soul of the nation – Early 20th century Irish nationalism and Zionism
In an earlier article Aidan Beatty looked at the shared history of Irish nationalism and Zionism, and how activists in both movements …