By Margaret Ward, Published by UCD Press, 2019 Reviewer: Evan Comerford On the second day of the Rising in 1916, Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington walked the two miles from their home in Rathmines to the City Centre. Frank, a dedicated pacifist, pleaded with citizens to stop looting the abandoned …
By Seán William Gannon The recent public controversy over the planned state commemoration of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) revealed widespread confusion …
By John Dorney The coming year 2020, is a hundred years since the real start of the Irish War of independence. In …
By Mark Holan On Jan. 17, 1920, six months after he arrived in America to promote the Irish republic, Éamon de Valera …
Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers! See below our top ten articles of 2019 With continuing uncertainly over the future …
One hundred years ago today, the attempt on the life of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By John Dorney On a cold …
By John Dorney On December 5 2019 at Cathal Brugha Barracks, the Irish Military archives did something very unusual for an army; …