John ‘Old Smoke’ Morrissey the man who ordered the death of Bill ‘the Butcher’ Poole.
By John Joe McGinley One of the most famous characters who inhabited the violent landscape of the Five Points Irish enclave …
Bill Dwyer -The King Of The Rum Runners
By John Joe McGinley Bill Dwyer was one of a number of Irish American figures to rise to prominence through organised …
Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll – The Gangster from Gweedore
By John Joe McGinley One of the most notorious Irish gangsters of the prohibition era was Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll. A handsome …
The life and death of Black Jack Adair, the mastermind of the Derryveagh Evictions
By John Joe McGinley It is often said that everyone is well thought off when they die, but there is one man …
Invisible Income – Remittances from the Diaspora sustained Ireland for over a century
By Evan Comerford When interviewed by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1955, an elderly Galway farmer recalled vividly the neighbours from his …
The Irish Girl and the American Letter: Irish immigrants in 19th Century America
By Martin Ford The written missive had remarkable significance for trans-Atlantic migration. Indeed, the peopling of North America owed more than a …
Book Review: One Bold Deed of Open Treason: The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement 1914-1916
Edited by Angus Mitchell Published by Merrion Press, 2016, Reviewer: Daniel Murray In February 1916, Roger Casement was recovering near Munich from …