Podcast: The Birmingham bombings, 1974 and the Birmingham Six
Interview by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney with Chris Mullin and Michael Flavin. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. On 21 …
Book review: Ulster’s Lost Counties – Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …
Book Review: A People Under Siege – The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond
By Aaron Edwards Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The titles of recent books examining unionism are instructive, Susan …
Writing the Birmingham pub bombings
By Michael Flavin The Birmingham pub bombings of 21st November 1974 were one of the most notorious incidents of The Troubles. …
Book Review: A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1980-1989 Volume 2
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by Merrion Press Reviewed by Dr Robert Collins In volume one of the above title, author Gearóid …
Book Review: Rewriting the Troubles, War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria
By Patrick Anderson Reviewer: Donal Hassett Published by Greenisland Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-3949573026 Patrick Anderson’s Rewriting the Troubles is engaging and frustrating …
Book Review: Free Statism & The Good Old IRA
By Danny Morrison, Published by: Greenisland Press, 2022 Reviewer: Brian Hanley ISBN 9783949573002 €17. £15. In the mid-1980s one of the …