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 ‘They were determined to obtain a sacrifice’: First Irish state executions of IRA members since the Civil War

By Gerard Shannon It was the night of 16 August 1940 and a worried Christy Quearney cycled through Dublin city’s southside. Quearney, a member of the IRA’s Training Department, was frequently on the move these last few months. He knew well his membership of the IRA, and associated activities, put …

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Podcast: Anne Chambers on Peter Howe Browne, Lord Sligo: ‘the Great Leviathan’

Interview by John Dorney with Anne Chambers, the author ‘The Great Leviathan’, on Peter Howe Browne, the Marques of Sligo. First broadcast …

‘A Fiend in Human Shape’? The Life and Crimes of Thomas D. Huckerby

By Seán William Gannon The behaviour of the Black and Tans, the mostly British recruits into the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920-21, …

Podcast: Ireland the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879

Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the confrontation between the British Empire and the Zulu kingdom in 1879. We discuss the Irish …

Today in Irish History, 23 March 1921 – The Scramogue Ambush

By Thomas Tormey On 23 March 1921, Spy Wednesday, a combined force of the North Roscommon and South Roscommon Brigades launched a …

Major-General Patrick Ronanye Cleburne: Cork’s Confederate General

By Ray Esten Patrick Royanye Cleburne was one the most revered military leaders of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. …

The Battle of Tory Island – the last engagement of the United Irishman rebellion of 1798

By John Joe McGinley The last battle of the United Irishman-led rebellion of 1798 was not fought, by Irishmen or even on …

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