Book Review: Soldiering Against Subversion
Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security during the Troubles, 1969-1998 By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press (2018) …
Martin McGuinness 1950-2017
By John Dorney Martin McGuinness always cut a striking figure. From a youthful, blonde shaggy haired Provisional IRA commander in Derry in …
‘Cowardly, Cunning and Contemptible’ – The British campaign in Dublin, 1919-1921.
The British counter-insurgency campaign in Dublin 1919-1921. By John Dorney. A British Army private, J.P Swindlehurst, stationed in Dublin from January …
Guerrilla Days in Kerry, an interview with Thomas Earls Fitzgerald
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald, who has been researching the Irish Revolution in County Kerry, talks to John Dorney of the Irish Story about …
The Greater War: Ireland and eastern Europe 1914-1922
John Dorney tries to fit Ireland’s experience of war and nationalist revolution into a wider European context. The First World War is …