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Book Review: Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic

By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a band of fugitives fled up a hillside in the Knockmealdown mountains, escaping pursuing National Army troops. Though they had fired some shots with handguns, they were badly outgunned …

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Al Smith, the man who wanted to be president but helped build the Empire state building instead.

By John Joe McGinley As President Joe Biden whose ancestors hail from Ballina in Co Mayo and the Cooley Peninsula in Co …

‘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 …

Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne

Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian agitation, land reform and political upheaval in Ireland from 1919 to 1923. First aired …

Jan Smuts and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921

Jack Traynor Jan Smuts, a one-time Boer general turned South African statesman and British diplomat, made a dramatic intervention in Ireland in …

‘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 …

Podcast: Executions during the Irish Civil War

Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Government policy of execution during the Civil War of 1922-23. See also this article on …

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