Book Review: The Dublin Docker: Working Lives of Dublin’s Deep-Sea Port
By Aileen O’Carroll and Don Bennett Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Jim Dorney Dockers were a significant part of …
By Aileen O’Carroll and Don Bennett Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Jim Dorney Dockers were a significant part of …
Tomas MacConmara has written a new book entitled Days of Hunger, the Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger strike of 1917. Here …
Editors: Conor McNamara and Pádraig Yeates Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Noonan The centenary of the 1913 Lockout sits somewhat …
By John Dorney The year 2016 marked the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. At the start of the year I wrote …
John Dorney on the meaning of the Easter Rising centenary. In 2016, Ireland will mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. …
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
By Gavin Foster Published by Palgrave MacMillan, London 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Irish history is often inward looking, almost navel gazing, obsessed …