By John Dorney Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. An urbane intellectual but also military man and skilled propagandist, his life’s journey defies easy explanations. He journeyed from a Protestant unionist background, who served the British Empire …
By John Dorney On the morning of November 17 1922, the mother of John Gaffney, an anti-Treaty IRA member and 21 year …
By Brian Hanley Published by Cork University Press, Cork, 2022 ISBN: 9781782055471 Reviewer: John Dorney This book is the first in a new …
By John Dorney One of the oldest, if not the oldest trade unions in Ireland is the bricklayers’ trade union the Ancient …
By David Leeson Who were the Black and Tans? According to Wikipedia: ‘The Black and Tans (Irish: Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (R.I.C.) as …
Talk originally given online by John Dorney for South Dublin County Library on November 4 2021. Followd by Question and Answer Session …
With John Dorney and Cathal Brennan, in association with the Irish History Show. We discuss: How the Irish Civil War is being …