Book review: Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America’s fight for Irish independence
By Terry Golway Irish Academic press 2015. Reviewer: Ruairí Ó hAodha Terry Golway is a prominent US political commentator, who in this …
‘Glorious Madness’ – The Life and Death of Michael O’Rahilly
By John Dorney Friday April, 29 1916. The General Post Office in Dublin, occupied on the Monday as the headquarters of …
‘Progress and Poverty’ – Henry George and Land Reform in modern Ireland
Barry Sheppard on the unlikely influence of an American radical on land reform in Ireland over the 19th and 20th centuries. …
Book Review: Frank Aiken, Nationalist and Internationalist
Edited by Bryce Evans and Stephen Kelly, Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2014 ISBN:978-07165-3239-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Frank Aiken is one …
‘Solid Men’ – The Irish in New York Politics, 1880-1920
How the Irish conquered political power in New York city. By Shay Dunphy. According to Lawrence McCaffrey, an authority on the Irish …
George Lennon: A Different Kind Of Irish Hero
Terence O’Reilly, author of a number of books on Irish History including Hitler’s Irishmen and Rebel Heart, looks briefly at the life …
The Crowther Family – An Irish Story
John Dorney looks the fortunes of the Crowther and Knowles families of 19th century Dublin. They were working class Protestant unionists, whose 19th century …