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A CHALLENGE: Rewriting Arthur Griffith’s role in the Treaty negotiations

For nearly ninety years, Frank Pakenham’s 1935 account of the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks in London (Peace by Ordeal) has dominated the narrative of what happened in 1921 and subsequently. It is challenged robustly and at length here by Prof. Colum Kenny, a recent biographer of Arthur Griffith, with particular reference …

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Betrayal or breakthrough? Arthur Griffith, the Boundary Commission and an unsigned memorandum

By Colum Kenny ABSTRACT:   The interpretation of certain events in London on the weekend of 12–13 November 1921 is central to any …

Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter The ‘Indiana Jones’ of Glenveagh Castle 

By John Joe McGinley This is the story of a Yale educated Professor of art, Arthur Kingsley Porter an archaeologist, art historian, …

An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to ‘Historical’ Abuses in Ireland

By Maeve O’Rourke   This is an adapted extract from an essay by Maeve O’Rourke in the recently published book REDRESS: Ireland’s …

‘Defacing our Deliverer’, The history of the William of Orange statue in Dublin

By John Dorney College Green in Dublin city centre was once the centre of the Protestant Kingdom of Ireland. On one side …

The River Lee and the Republican Armoured Cars of the Irish Civil War

By Anthony Barrett When the artillery of the Provincial Government’s National Army opened fire on the Four Courts on the morning of the …

Violence against Women in Belfast, 1920-22 – Part 2

Kieran Glennon Part 1 of this article examined the first two of the forms of violence against women in the revolutionary period …

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