“The road for the cattle – the land for the People” The Castlefergus Cattle Drive and the death of IRA Volunteer John Ryan
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc looks at the shooting of IRA Volunteer John Ryan who was shot dead by the RIC at a …
People’s College History Talks 2018
This year, 2018 is the centenary of one of the most important years of modern Irish history, 1918. The Irish Story is …
“Don’t tell your mother or I’ll kill you.” The murder of baby William Holden, 1923.
Colm Wallace tells the story of a shocking crime in rural Kilkenny in April 1923. After the Civil War finished the Irish …
The Tragedies of Ballyconnell
John Dorney reports on a series of tragedies in the border area in 1923 during the Irish Civil War. On January 6th, …
The Enduring Question of the Irish Famine: The Third Annual International Famine Conference
By Barry Sheppard. Even though we who have more than a passing interest in Irish history find ourselves in the middle of …
July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
July 1935 saw vicious sectarian rioting in Belfast. Here in a follow up to his article on the riot in Limerick, Brian …
The Member for Mayo
Jane Stanford writes about John O’Connor Power one of Irish Nationalism’s less well-remembered characters but one who in the 1870s and 1880s …