Interview: Declan Power on the Irish Army in Lebanon
From 1978 until 2001 the Irish Army provided a battalion to UNIFIL the United Nations force in south Lebanon. Here security analyst …
Book Review: From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3295-6 By Donnacha O Beacháin Published by Manchester University Press (2018) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh The spectre of Brexit hangs over …
Book Review: Into Action, 1960-2014 Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire
By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2017 ISBN: 9781785371110 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “The Irish Defence Forces’ involvement in overseas …
Interview with Declan Power on the Siege of Jadotville, Part 2
The first part of the this interview of Declan Power by John Dorney deals with the Congo crisis of 1960-61, the UN-Katanga …
The Irish Army, the UN, Jadotville and the Congo
By John Dorney. For further context see our interview with Declan Power here. October 2016 saw the launch of a new Netflix …
Book review: Kildare Barracks
Kildare Barracks: From the Royal Field Artillery to the Irish Artillery Corps By Mark McLoughlin Published by Merrion, Sallins, 2014 ISBN: 9781908928474 …
Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist
Almost uniquely amongst the leading figures of the Irish revolutionary period, 1916-1923, Frank Aiken (1898-1983) does not have a biography devoted to …