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The Irish Civil War – A divisive memory
In a previous article here at The Irish Story, John Dorney looked at the memory of the Irish Civil War. Here we speak to two Irishmen, Declan Power and Micheal MacDonncha, who have very different ...
Who Shot Frank Lawlor? – Encounters with the Irish Civil War
John Dorney tries to make sense of a killing in December 1922 during the Irish Civil War The Irish Civil War was a murky little affair, a dirty, vicious, half-remembered little conflict. Its name often ...
Book Review ~ IRA The Bombs And The Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity ~ A.R. Oppenheimer
Title: IRA: The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity Author: A.R. Oppenheimer Publisher: Irish Academic Press ISBN: 978-0-7165-2895-1 REVIEWER: Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc I had some reservations about being asked to review ...
Using Google Maps To List Ambushes & IRA Activity In Clare
Padraig Og O Ruairc, author Blood On The Banner and The Battle For Limerick City, and the group of historians who contribute to the War Of Independence website have create a Google map that features ...
War in 17th Century Ireland
In our second interview with military historian Padraig Lenihan, we talk about the impact of warfare on 17th century Ireland. (Listen to the first interview here) These hundred years were probably the bloodiest in Irish ...
Padraig Lenihan and the 17th Century in Ireland
In our discussion of 20th century Irish nationalism, we often talk about Irish nationalism springing from the Irish Catholic identity – a sense of past wrongs that needed to be righted. But where did this ...
Today In Irish History – The Battle Of Fontenoy, 11 May
~1745~ It has always struck me as one of Ireland’s great tragedies, that many of our kin have died in the service of foreign armies. While in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries this predominantly meant ...