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 …
Book Review: The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes.
By Paul Jude Redmond Published by Irish Academic Press. Reviewer: Rhona McCord I first met Paul Redmond in 2013 at a press …
Book Review: A Portrait of West-County Down
A Portrait of West-County Down Past and Present: An Exploration of Landscape, Population, Worship and Diversity. By Dr Francis Xavier McCorry Reviewer: …
From Catastrophe to Baby Boom – Population Change in Early Modern Ireland 1641-1741
Padraig Lenihan talks to John Dorney and Cathal Brennan on Near FM’s History Show about life and death in 17th and 18th …
The Molly Maguires
On the latest edition of the Irish History Show on Near FM John Dorney and I, Cathal Brennan, were very pleased to …
The General Strike and Irish independence
How the syndicalist idea of a general strike contributed to the independence of Ireland. By John Dorney In the late 19th and …
Ireland and the great flu epidemic of 1918
John Dorney takes a look at the great killer in Ireland in 1918-19, not political violence or the Great War, but the …