The Irish Defence Forces in the 1930s – Holding Pattern
By Eoin Kinsella By the time Fianna Fáil took office in March 1932 (supported by the Labour Party), the storm clouds of …
By Eoin Kinsella By the time Fianna Fáil took office in March 1932 (supported by the Labour Party), the storm clouds of …
By David Prendergast On April 11th 1923, Thomas Keating, the 30-year-old guerrilla commandant of the Waterford IRA 2nd Battalion, was trekking through the …
By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a …
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
By Bryan MacMahon Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, has received very little attention from national or even local historians of the revolutionary years of …
By John Dorney On the morning of November 17 1922, the mother of John Gaffney, an anti-Treaty IRA member and 21 year …
By John Dorney (See also the Irish Civil War a Brief overview) The Irish Civil War, the conflict between rival nationalist factions …