When three American journalists visited ‘Paddy the Cope’ in Dungloe, 1919-1922
By Mark Holan Dungloe (An Clochán Liath) in County Donegal is 170 miles northwest of Dublin, about a three-and-a-half-hour drive today. The …
When An American Suffragette Interviewed Ireland’s ‘First Lady’
By Mark Holan American suffragette, feminist, and author Doris Stevens wrote a profile of Sinéad de Valera in summer 1921 that was sympathetic …
‘Likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty’, the Seizure of Irish newspapers, September 1919
By Mark Holan At midday Sept. 20, 1919, as “squally,” unseasonably cold weather raked across Dublin, “armed soldiers wearing trench helmets” joined …
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” …
Mrs. Brophy’s Late Husband
Shortly before James Brophy was killed in Dublin during Ireland’s War of Independence, an Irish immigrant of the same name disappeared from …