Podcast: James Hoban – Irish architect of the White House
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Stewart McLauren of the White House Historical Association about James Hoban the Irishman who designed the …
Book Review:Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, suffragette and Sinn-Feiner: her memoirs and political writings
By Margaret Ward (ed.) Published by UCD Press (2017) Reviewer: Fionnuala Walsh ‘Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, I would say, was the ablest of …
Travelling the Same Road? Arthur Griffith & The IRB, pre-1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith’s long and often tortuous relationship with the Irish Republican Brotherhood up to 1916. By 1905, the journalist …
John Boyle O’Reilly and the 1870 Fenian Invasion Of Canada
In the second piece on John Boyle O’Reilly, Ian Kenneally looks some more at Boyle O’Reilly’s role during the invasion of Canada …
The Fenian Invasion Of Canada, 1866
Ian Kenneally the author of From The Earth, A Cry: the story of John Boyle O’Reilly published by The Collins Press writes about the Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866.
George Lennon: A Different Kind Of Irish Hero
Terence O’Reilly, author of a number of books on Irish History including Hitler’s Irishmen and Rebel Heart, looks briefly at the life …