By Kieran Glennon In a survey of the social structure of the IRA across Ireland during the revolutionary period, Peter Hart declared that “’The boys’ were farmers’ or shopkeepers’ sons rather than owners; apprentices or journeymen rather than tradesmen or masters; junior clerks and assistant teachers. Property, money and security, …
A history of gloved exhibition boxing in Ireland. By Ray Esten In devotion to Simon Byrne and his kin -the battling kind …
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney are joined by Brian Hanley and Laura McAtackney to discuss the contentious commemorations of 1920 in 2020. …
Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers and contributors. It’s been an eventful year with world pandemic and a series of …
By Terry Dunne There is a great sense of prescience to what English Radical M.P. George Poulet Scrope wrote eleven years before …
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss Tom Barry and the Kilmichael Ambush of November 1920. First Broadcast on the Irish History Show. …
By John Joe McGinley Canon James McFadden was a man of deep faith who fought for the rights of his parishioners against …