Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Desmond rebellions of the late sixteenth century in Munster First broadcast on The Irish History Show. The rebellions were the conflict of the House of Desmond, the Fitzgerald dynasty with the Elizabethan English state they ended with the destruction of the Earl of …
By Christopher Lee. In 1923, after days of heavy rain the ground around the Mountjoy Prison blocks became sodden. An armoured car …
In August 1923 the Irish Free State had its first general election after the Irish Civil War. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney …
By Daniel Ayiotis Published by Wordwell Books, 2022 Reviewer: Daniel Murray How much work goes into the making of an archive? Rather …
In the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, a section of disgruntled officers in the National Army of the Irish Free State …
By Aaron Edwards Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The titles of recent books examining unionism are instructive, Susan …
By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …