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Today in Irish History – 11 September, 1649, Cromwell Storms Drogheda
John Dorney remembers the sack of Drogheda and the massacre of the Royalist garrison by the New Model Army in 1649. On Monday, September the 10th 1649, Oliver Cromwell, encamped outside of Drogheda, with an ...
Today In Irish History – 25 June, 1917 – The Opening Of The Irish Convention
Today marks the anniversary of an event that is largely forgotten in Irish history. It’s forgotten, mostly because it was a failure or, if not a failure, certainly not a success. Failure of course is not ...
Today in Irish History – July 11, 1921 – The Truce
John Dorney remembers the last day of the Irish War of Independence
Today In Irish History – Anti-Treaty Forces Abandon The Four Courts, 30 June
~1922~ The occupation of the Four Courts by Anti-Treaty forces in April 1922 made real the threat of violence that had existed only as a subtext to the treaty debates. That real fighting did not ...
Today in Irish History, April 30, 1916, The Surrender in the Easter Rising
Over April 28 to May 1, the rebels of the Easter Rising surrendered. This is an adapted extract from John Dorney’s The Story of the Easter Rising. The Easter Rising in Dublin had broken out on Easter Monday, April ...
Today in Irish History, April 26, 1916, The battle at Mount Street Bridge
In an adapted extract from, The Story of the Easter Rising, John Dorney describes the bloody fighting at Mount Street Bridge during the Easter Rising. In many locations during the Easter Rising, particularly at Jacobs ...
Today in Irish History, April 24, 1916, The First Day of the Easter Rising
In an extract from the Story of the Easter Rising, John Dorney tells the story of one of the most celebrated days in Irish history. An introduction to the Rising is here. On Easter Monday, ...