‘A bad fight, a disgraceful fight’, Tom Barry in the Civil War
By John Dorney Tom Barry was a most headstrong and abrasive young man in 1922. Aged 25, he had fought in both …
Tom Barry and the Road from Mesopotamia to Kilmichael
By John Dorney In 1915, aged 17, Thomas Bernadine Barry enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in Cork, as he recalled in …
Today in Irish History – August 22, 1922 – Béal na Bláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins
The death of Michael Collins, by John Dorney. On a country road in West Cork, on August 22 1922, a convoy of …
‘This Splendid Historic Organisation’: The Irish Republican Brotherhood among the Anti-Treatyites, 1921-4
Daniel Murray on anti-Treaty attempts to revive the IRB during the Civil War. See also his article on the IRB after 1916. …
Evasive Manoeuvres: An Examination of Florence O’Donoghue’s Account of the Death of Michael Collins
What really happened on the day Michael Collins was shot? Daniel Murray looks at Florence O’Donoghue’s version. An Irregular Meeting In February …