Podcast: James Hoban – Irish architect of the White House
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Stewart McLauren of the White House Historical Association about James Hoban the Irishman who designed the …
The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error?
By John Joe McGinley In September 1884, a royal navy gunboat, on route to carry out an eviction sunk off the coast …
‘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, …
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 …