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James Fitzgerald at Kilmallock – The Protestant Reformation fails in Ireland
Kilmallock 1600. An episode of the failure of the Protestant Reformation in Ireland. By John Dorney In the summer of 1600, at the height of the Nine Years War, an English military party accompanied by ...
An Irishman in Exile, Florence MacCarthy in London, 1601-1640.
John Dorney writes of Gaelic aristocrat Florence MacCarthy’s imprisonment and the Anglicisation of Munster. 1601-1640. You can read about Florence MacCarthy’s life and times here. Just before the battle of Kinsale in 1601,Florence MacCarthy ...
Book Review: Sleep Soldier Sleep
Sleep Soldier Sleep – The Life and Times of Padraig O’Connor By Diarmuid O’Connor and Frank Connolly Miseab Publications 2011 Reviewer: John Dorney Historical memory tends to move in human generations. ...
Radio Discussion on the War of Independence and Civil War in Dublin
In a follow up to our interview with James Durney, John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the dynamics of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the Irish capital in 1919-1923 on Near FM’s History Show. John Dorney ...
“When Aungier Street became the Dardanelles” – Interview with James Durney
Historian James Durney talks to John Dorney and Cathal Brennan about the experience of a street in Dublin, nicknamed, “the Dardanelles” by British troops during the Irish War of Independence. Click on the links below to ...
Today in Irish History – The execution of the “Drumboe Martyrs”, 14th March 1923
Kieran Glennon tells the story of the four Republicans executed in Donegal in 1923, by among others, his grandfather. Four Republicans, who subsequently became known as the “Drumboe Martyrs”, were executed by a Free ...
Today In Irish History – March 7, 1913, Women Take Sides in Achill Land Agitation
The battle on Achill Island in 1912-13 between Agnes McDonnell and her tenants. By Patricia Byrne. Convoy of Hay Carts Attacked On 7 March 1913 a convoy of carts laden with hay approached the crossroads ...