The IRA’s War on Public Entertainment – The Amusements Order of 1923.
How the anti-Treaty IRA forbade ‘public amusements’ at a ‘time of national mourning’. By John Dorney On the morning of April 20, …
Book Reviews: A Bloody Day and Bloody Night, The Irish at Waterloo and Rorke’s Drift
A Bloody Day – The Irish At Waterloo by Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2017 ISBN: 9780993114359 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan …
The Gardaí in the 1920s – A Troubled Beginning
By Colm Wallace, whose new book The Fallen details Gardaí who lost their lives in the line of duty. The Gardaí have …
The Free State’s forgotten soldiers: The National Army monument at Glasnevin.
National Army dead at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, by John Dorney Perhaps the most famous and most visited grave at Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery …
Civil War casualties in County Tipperary
By John Dorney The death toll of the Irish Civil War remains one of the least studied but most remarked upon questions …
‘Preserving the spirit of the movement’: The IRA, the Broadway Cinema and the 1943 Easter Rising commemoration
By Alison Martin In comparison to some of the Easter Rising commemorations which took place around the time of key anniversaries, there …
Today in Irish History: The Headford ambush, March 21, 1921.
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald on a bloody action in Kerry during the Irish War of Independence. On the 21st March 1921, the most …