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Book Review: The Story of the Easter Rising, 1916
Cathal Brennan reviews the first in the Irish Story’s Story of series, The Story of the Easter Rising, 1916 by John Dorney. The Story of the Easter Rising, 1916 by John Dorney, Green Lamp Media, ...
Book Review: God’s Executioner
Patrick Frayne reviews God’s Executioner, by Michael O Siochru – an account of the devastating English Parliamentarian Conquest of Ireland in 1649-1653. God’s Executioner, Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland, 1649-1653, Faber & Faber, ...
Today In Irish History – Drumquin: The First Daylight Arms Raid In The Irish War Of Independence, 26 August.
In this article, Liam O Duibhir, author of The Donegal Awakening, gives an account of the first ever daylight arms raid of the War of Independence which was carried out by the men of the ...
The Irish War of Independence – A Religious War? Part III
In this concluding part of a three-part series, we talk about the results of the Irish Revolution and the partition of the country between North and South. Firstly, Fearghal McGarry strikes a cautionary note. Although ...
Today in Irish History – Béal na mBláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins, 22 August.
~1922~ Michael Collins casts a strange shadow over Irish history. On the one hand he was responsible for much of the successful guerilla and insurgent activity that brought Britain to the table, on the other, ...
The Irish War of Independence – A Religious War? Part II
In this second part of a three part audio feature, we look at the conduct of the War of Independence on the ground. Three historians discuss whether the War of Independence was really a sectarian or ...
The Irish War of Independence – A Religious War? Part I
In this, the first part of a three part audio feature, we look at the hotly debated question of whether the Irish War of Independence was really a communal or sectarian conflict as well as a struggle for ...