An anniversary podcast with Cathal Brennan and John Dorney, celebrating the 100the episode of the Irish History Show. Many thanks to all guest and listeners over the years. the podcast was first started in 2011, in association with Near FM radio station. It has since developed into an independent podcast …
By Michael Barry The Spanish Armada was a hugely important event in world history. In this article I begin by giving a …
By Caroline Crowley To those of us reared in poverty it is not so difficult to take up the cause of emancipation …
By John Dorney There were, effectively, two civil wars in Ireland in 1922-23. The first was within the new state of Northern …
By John O’Beirne Ranelagh. An adapted extract from his new book ‘The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924’. Without the IRB, there would not …
Crusade in Spain, by Eoin O’Duffy & Michael McCormack, 1938, republished 2019, Reconquista Press Salamanca Diaries, Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil …
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …