Book Review: The Dublin Docker: Working Lives of Dublin’s Deep-Sea Port
By Aileen O’Carroll and Don Bennett Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Jim Dorney Dockers were a significant part of …
Book review: Sean Murray – Marxist Leninist and Irish Socialist Republican
By Sean Byers Published by Irish Academic Press, 2015. Reviewer: Martin Flynn In the breadth of Irish historical study, at least that which …
“Shot down like a dog” The Finglas Riot of 1913
Christopher Lee on an episode of the 1913 Lockout. For more articles on the strike see here. Hundreds of rioters advance on the two …
Discussion of the Lockout
In episode eight of The History Show on Near FM, The Irish Story’s John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the great Lockout …
Commemorating the Lockout
John Dorney reports on the 1913 Commemoration Committee – gearing up for the centenary of the Dublin Lockout of 1913. It will …
The Great Southern Railway Strike of 1911
John Dorney reports from a talk by Conor McCabe of the Labour History Society on the Railway strike of 1911. In late …
Four Bloody Sundays
In the wake of the Saville Report on the events in Derry in 1972, John Dorney looks at the place of “Bloody …