Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to Liz Gillis and Dr Mary McAuliffe on the republican women and Cumman nn mBan, the Irish Citizen Army and others. First broadcast on The Irish History Show. Who were the women of the Irish revolution? What were their demands? Were they perpetrators or …
By John Dorney On January 22, 1879, under a mountain named Isandlwana, a Zulu force, some 20,000 strong attacked a British military …
The year 2021 sees a number of momentous centenaries in Ireland, from the bloodiest months in the War of Independence, to the …
The modernising Irish Landlord who married not one but two nieces of Jane Austen. By John Joe McGinley Lord George Augusta …
By Kieran Glennon In a survey of the social structure of the IRA across Ireland during the revolutionary period, Peter Hart declared …
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. …