Podcast: Gerry Healy and the Workers Revolutionary Party
Interview with Aidan Beatty on his new book ‘The Party is Always Right’, the Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism’, …
Mother Jones: ‘the most dangerous Irish woman in America’
By John Joe McGinley Mary Harris Jones, a proud Cork woman, was a teacher, seamstress, labour activist and union organiser. A champion …
Hermann Goertz – a German spy in wartime Ireland
The involvement of a Nazi spy with the IRA during the Second World War. By John Dorney On May 5, 1940, the …
‘Without Law or Justice’: Class conflict in the Irish border counties 1920-23.
How social strife accompanied the Irish revolution in the north midlands region. By John Dorney. At a meeting of evicted tenants at …
“The women who died for Ireland” – Cumann na mBan fatalities in the War of Independence & Civil War –
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Twenty Nineteen marks the centenary of the appointment of Constance Markievicz as Minister for Labour in …
Interview: Farming in Irish history with Micheal O Fatharthaigh.
John Dorney speaks with Micheal O Fatharthaigh on farming in Irish history from 1900 to 1945. We speak about: The Results of …
The Belfast Dockers and Carters Strike of 1907
When a dock strike called by Jim Larkin brought Belfast to a standstill. By John Dorney The Belfast docks strike of …