‘Inflaming sectarian passions’ The Eucharistic Congress of 1932 and the North of Ireland How a Catholic celebration in Dublin inflamed sectarian passions in Northern Ireland. By Barry Sheppard. Public religious commemorations, often exultant in tone, …
The Helga and the shelling of Liberty hall By Michael Barry. In researching my book ‘Courage Boys, We are Winning, an Illustrated History of the 1916 Rising’, I came across …
The General Strike and Irish independence How the syndicalist idea of a general strike contributed to the independence of Ireland. By John Dorney In the late 19th …
Ireland’s Forgotten Olympians – The Irish Whales As the 2012 Olympics approaches, Cathal Brennan tells the story of a group of Irish immigrants to America who became titans of …
