1888: An American Journalist in Ireland Meets Michael Davitt & Arthur Balfour
By Mark Holan American journalist William Henry Hurlbert traveled to Ireland in 1888 to report on “the social and economical conditions of …
Book Review: The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes.
By Paul Jude Redmond Published by Irish Academic Press. Reviewer: Rhona McCord I first met Paul Redmond in 2013 at a press …
The Manchester martyrs: From last letters to lasting legends
By Mark Holan On 22 November 1867, Co. Cork native William P. Allen wrote his last letter “this side of the grave” …
Catalonia and Ireland
In the aftermath of the putative independence referendum in Catalonia, on October 1, 2017, John Dorney looks at some of the parallels …
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Irish Literary Society
Jane Stanford on Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and his links with Ireland. The Anglo-Celtic race has always run …
‘A policy of Passive Resistance’: Sinn Féin and Abstentionism – an historical overview
For over 100 years now, elected Irish Republican politicians have refused to take their seats in the British Parliament. Kerron Ó Luain …
Today in Irish History, August 3 1916, Roger Casement is Executed
A short article on Roger Casement. Executed today 100 years ago. By John Dorney Roger Casement, hanged on August 3, 1916 was …