The Belfast News Letter and the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney There were, effectively, two civil wars in Ireland in 1922-23. The first was within the new state of Northern …
Book review: Ulster’s Lost Counties – Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …
The Plantation of Ulster: A Brief Overview
By John Dorney The Plantation of Ulster was the project by the English monarchy to colonise the northern province of Ireland with …
Podcast: the Ulster Plantation
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History …
Book Review: A People Under Siege – The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond
By Aaron Edwards Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The titles of recent books examining unionism are instructive, Susan …
War along the Border: Ireland 1922
The second in a two-part article on the Irish War of Independence in the border counties. Part one here. By John Dorney …
The First Battle for the Marrowbone, Belfast 1920
By Gus McKendry This article is an attempt to examine and analyse the events on the night of 28th and the early …