The Spanish Armada: Myths and Misconceptions
By Michael Barry The Spanish Armada was a hugely important event in world history. In this article I begin by giving a …
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 …
Book Review: The Flame and the Candle – War in Mayo 1919-1924
By Dominic Price. Collins Press 2012 Reviewer: John Dorney Local studies of revolutionary Ireland are now coming out thick and fast as …
The Kirkintilloch Tragedy, 1937
Seventy-five years ago this month one of the biggest peace-time tragedies befell the Irish state when ten young migrant workers from Achill …
The Member for Mayo
Jane Stanford writes about John O’Connor Power one of Irish Nationalism’s less well-remembered characters but one who in the 1870s and 1880s …
Oral History and Dinnsheanchas: Tracing Old Routes Across Mayo
Patricia Byrne reviews En Route – A Public Art Project by Aileen Lambert for Mayo County Council In a recent interview in …
Today In Irish History – Caught! Fugitive Criminal Lynchehaun Arrested, 5 January 1895
Patricia Byrne discusses the capture of infamous criminal and later source of a literary legend, James Lynchehaun. On Saturday morning, 5 January …