Book Review: Homeward Bound, Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire
By Niamh Dillon Published by New York University Press, 2022 Reviewer: Sean William Gannon Niamh Dillon’s new book Homeward Bound compares …
‘Ireland and the World Stand Appalled’: The Limerick Curfew Murders, 1921
By Seán William Gannon Late on a March night in 1921, as Limerick city slept under a military curfew, armed and masked …
Book Review: The Black and Tans: A Complete Alphabetical List, Short History and Genealogical Guide
By: Jim Herlihy Published by: Four Courts Press, Dublin 2021 Reviewed By: Seán William Gannon Jim Herlihy is hugely respected amongst historians …
‘A Fiend in Human Shape’? The Life and Crimes of Thomas D. Huckerby
By Seán William Gannon The behaviour of the Black and Tans, the mostly British recruits into the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920-21, …
‘The Green Frame of British Rule?’ – Irish in the Indian Civil Service
By Seán William Gannon In British-ruled India, a few tens of thousands of British administrators and soldiers ruled over between 2 to …
Revisiting the ‘Limerick Pogrom’ of 1904
By Seán William Gannon On the evening of 11 January 1904, Fr John Creagh took the pulpit during mass at the Redemptorist …
Henry Hugh Tudor – His Life and Times
By Sean William Gannon May 2020 marks the centenary of one of the most lamentable appointments in modern Irish history, that of …