Lord George Hill, Improving landlord or cruel ‘Lord of the Soil’?
The modernising Irish Landlord who married not one but two nieces of Jane Austen. By John Joe McGinley Lord George Augusta …
From the Shipyards to the Poitín Still – Social Class and the IRA’s 3rd Northern Division
By Kieran Glennon In a survey of the social structure of the IRA across Ireland during the revolutionary period, Peter Hart declared …
Using the gloves to turn a shilling or a crown: gloved sparring in the late eighteenth to mid- nineteenth century
A history of gloved exhibition boxing in Ireland. By Ray Esten In devotion to Simon Byrne and his kin -the battling kind …
Podcast: Commemoration and its Discontents
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney are joined by Brian Hanley and Laura McAtackney to discuss the contentious commemorations of 1920 in 2020. …