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, …
Interview: Tomas MacConmara on 1917 in Ireland and the death of Thomas Ashe
Tomas MacConmara has written a new book entitled Days of Hunger, the Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger strike of 1917. Here …
The 2016 Rising centenary: What did it all mean?
By John Dorney The year 2016 marked the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. At the start of the year I wrote …
Book Review : Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 1: 1968-1978
By Ruan O’Donnell Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Irish Academic Press (January 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0716531410 ISBN-13: 978-0716531418 Reviewer: Mícheál Ó hAodha …
Today in Irish History 27 September 1922, the Passing of the Public Safety Act
The passing of legislation allowing for executions during the Irish Civil War. By John Dorney On September 27 1922, the Dáil …
Opinion: Commemorating Kilmichael
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc on the pitfalls of commemorating the Kilmichael ambush. The Southern Star newspaper recently reported (3rd August 2013) that Cork …
A Limerick riot
Brian Hanley looks at a riot in Limerick in 1935 At about 10.30pm on the 20th July 1935, a Saturday night, …