Podcast: Elections in Ireland from Catholic Emancipation to 1918
In part three of our series on elections in Ireland, from medieval times until Irish indepedence and partition. First broadcast on the …
Shunned. Ostracised. Excommunicated … Boycotted. The tribulations of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott
By Myles Dungan ‘Mayo people do not steal, and if they shot a stranger, it would only be by mistake for a …
Forgotten Charity Between Ireland and America, 1889 and 1921
By Mark Holan Media on both sides of the Atlantic rushed to report the story that connected Black ‘47 to COVID-19. When …
The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error?
By John Joe McGinley In September 1884, a royal navy gunboat, on route to carry out an eviction sunk off the coast …
Ireland and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
By John Dorney On January 22, 1879, under a mountain named Isandlwana, a Zulu force, some 20,000 strong attacked a British military …
Canon James McFadden – The fighting priest of Gweedore
By John Joe McGinley Canon James McFadden was a man of deep faith who fought for the rights of his parishioners against …
The Cattle Drives of 1920: Agrarian Mobilisation in the Irish Revolution
By Terry Dunne In 1925 Clare was bedecked with posters bearing what we might think of as a fiery revolutionary message. They …