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 …
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 …
Ambushes in the Irish War of Independence: Myth and Reality
By John Dorney Had it not been for the public health restrictions currently in force in Ireland (February 2021), there would be …
Podcast: Irish Revolutionary Women with Liz Gillis and Mary McAuliffe
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to Liz Gillis and Dr Mary McAuliffe on the republican women and Cumman nn mBan, the …
Ireland and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
By John Dorney On January 22, 1879, under a mountain named Isandlwana, a Zulu force, some 20,000 strong attacked a British military …
Podcast: Commemorating 1921 in Ireland, 100 years on
The year 2021 sees a number of momentous centenaries in Ireland, from the bloodiest months in the War of Independence, to the …
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. …