‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
Today in Irish History, The Burning of the Custom House, 25 May 1921
A famous act of symbolic destruction by the IRA in Dublin during the War of Independence, but also a military disaster for …
John Dorney interviewed about Ballyseedy
In a previous article, March 1923, the Terror Month, John Dorney looked at the bloody events of March 1923 in Kerry. Here he talks …
March 1923 – The Terror Month
March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what …