‘They killed idealism in my soul’ – the end of the Irish Civil War
John Dorney If the Irish revolution began arguably with the Home Rule crisis of 1912-13, or perhaps with the Easter Rising of …
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 …
‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace talks in London during the Civil War
By Karl O’Hanlon In February 1923, as the Civil War raged in Ireland, W.T. Cosgrave secretly met Irish peer Lord Granard and …
When An American Suffragette Interviewed Ireland’s ‘First Lady’
By Mark Holan American suffragette, feminist, and author Doris Stevens wrote a profile of Sinéad de Valera in summer 1921 that was sympathetic …
The Treaty Debates: December 14 1921- January 7 1922
By John Dorney On January 7, 1922 the Second Dáil, the parliament of the Irish Republic, voted to approve the Anglo-Irish Treaty, …
Mary Dunne, A Mother’s Struggle for Recognition
By Martin Harkin The mystery and conspiracy that surrounds the shooting of Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson on 22nd June 1922 has …
The ‘State will Perish’: Comparing the Elections of 1932 and 2020
By John Dorney In the wake of the February 2020 Irish elections, former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams compared that party’s success …