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 …
Book Review: The Dublin Lockout, 1913: New Perspectives on Class War & its Legacy
Editors: Conor McNamara and Pádraig Yeates Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Noonan The centenary of the 1913 Lockout sits somewhat …
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 …
Twenty Sixteen –Commemorating the Rising – What does it all Mean?
John Dorney on the meaning of the Easter Rising centenary. In 2016, Ireland will mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. …
‘Rough and Ready Work’ – The Special Infantry Corps
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
Book Review: The Irish Civil War and Society, Politics Class and Conflict
By Gavin Foster Published by Palgrave MacMillan, London 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Irish history is often inward looking, almost navel gazing, obsessed …
The Pearse Street Ambush, Dublin, March 14, 1921
An episode of the Irish War of Independence. Thirteen people die in Dublin. By John Dorney Dublin awoke on the morning to …