Today in Irish History, December 14, 1918 – The General Election of 1918
The historic victory of Sinn Fein. By John Dorney No election in Irish history has been as decisive as the British …
Book Review: Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens
Edited by Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2018 (Revised edition) Reviewer: Timothy Ellis The current ‘decade of …
Interview: Tomas MacConmara on 1917 in Ireland and the death of Thomas Ashe
Tomas MacConmara has written a new book entitled Days of Hunger, the Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger strike of 1917. Here …
Today in Irish History: The Headford ambush, March 21, 1921.
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald on a bloody action in Kerry during the Irish War of Independence. On the 21st March 1921, the most …
The War of Independence in Kerry
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Curiously, for all its republican heritage a conception has existed for some time of Kerry being inactive in …
The Illies and its environs in the 19th Century
Gearóid Mac Lochlainn on life in ‘Illies’ area of north Donegal in the 19th century. The Illies is a rural area …
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 …