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Book Review: The Battle for Cork, July-August 1922
The Battle for Cork, July-August 1922 By John Borgonovo, Mercier 2011 Reviewer: John Dorney On August 8 1922, 450 Free State soldiers clambered out of a converted passenger ferry at Passage West, near Cork city. ...
Book Review: The Black & Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920 -1921
Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc reviews The Black & Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920 -1921. By David M. Leeson Oxford University Press, Hardback, £30 With the centenaries of the ...
Peter Hart and the Dunmanway killings controversy
John Dorney looks at one of the most heated debates in modern Irish history. In April of 1922, during the period of truce between the end of the War of Independence and the start of ...
Review: Conor McCabe on Banker and Rancher Interests in the Modern Irish Economy
Cathal Brennan reviews Conor McCabe’s lecture of October 15, 2011 at the Pearse Centre, Dublin. Listen to the talk here. On the 15th October the Ireland Institute on Pearse Street played host to the second annual ...
Book Review: A City in Wartime, Dublin 1914-18
Book Review: A City in Wartime, Dublin 1914-18 Author: Padraig Yeates Gill & MacMillan 2011. Reviewer: John Dorney The most important date in modern Irish history, Padraig Yeates maintains in his new book, was ...
Book Review: Rebels – Voices from the Easter Rising
Rebels – Voices from the Easter Rising By Fearghal McGarry, Penguin Ireland, 2011. Reviewer: John Dorney There is and always has been, something strangely mythic about the Easter Rising. Perhaps this is simply ...
Book Review: Unlikely Rebels – The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom
Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom is a well written account of the role which the Gifford sisters