A Report of the Athlone Irish Civil War Conference 23 November 2013
John Dorney reports on the Old Athlone Society’s Conference on the Irish Civil War, held in Custume Barracks Athlone, November 23 1923. …
Book Review: Irregulars
By Kevin McCarthy New Island Press, 2013 Reviewer: John Dorney Available here from the publishers. On October 7 1922, about 3 months …
Book Review – The Civic Guard Mutiny
Title: The Civic Guard Mutiny Author: Brian McCarthy Publisher: Mercier Press Date of Publication: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-78117-045-8 Price: €14.99 Reviewer: Cathal Brennan The …
An Irishman in Exile, Florence MacCarthy in London, 1601-1640.
John Dorney writes of Gaelic aristocrat Florence MacCarthy’s imprisonment and the Anglicisation of Munster. 1601-1640. You can read about Florence MacCarthy’s life …
Florence MacCarthy, the last MacCarthy Mor, 1560-1640
John Dorney looks at the career of Florence MacCarthy, one of a generation of Gaelic aristocrats swept away by the Elizabethan English conquest …