Hermann Goertz – a German spy in wartime Ireland
The involvement of a Nazi spy with the IRA during the Second World War. By John Dorney On May 5, 1940, the …
‘Trampling the rights of a free people’: Coercion in Nineteenth Century Ireland
By John Dorney According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act …
From Wexford to Odessa
The story is of a voyage to Odessa on the Black Sea in the late 19th century.By Nicky Rossiter. The Alert commanded …
‘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 …
Opinion: What kind of future did the Men of 1916 dream of?
By John Dorney For 100 years now in Ireland, when we are facing some national crossroads, someone will inevitably invoke the ‘men …
Book review Kingdom Overthrown: Ireland and the Battle for Europe 1688-1691
by Gerard FitzGibbon Published by New Island Books, 2015. Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll 2016 is a year of historical remembrance for the Irish …
Daniel O’Connell and the Young Irelanders
Irish nationalist disunity and the rise of physical force nationalism, 1842-1846, by Eoin O’Driscoll On the 11 July 1846 Daniel O’Connell presented …