
‘Likely to cause disaffection to His Majesty’, the Seizure of Irish newspapers, September 1919
By Mark Holan At midday Sept. 20, 1919, as “squally,” unseasonably cold weather raked across Dublin, “armed soldiers wearing trench helmets” joined …
By Mark Holan At midday Sept. 20, 1919, as “squally,” unseasonably cold weather raked across Dublin, “armed soldiers wearing trench helmets” joined …
By Mark Holan On Jan. 17, 1920, six months after he arrived in America to promote the Irish republic, Éamon de Valera …
By Mark Holan American journalist William Henry Hurlbert traveled to Ireland in 1888 to report on “the social and economical conditions of …
By Mark Holan On 22 November 1867, Co. Cork native William P. Allen wrote his last letter “this side of the grave” …
Shortly before James Brophy was killed in Dublin during Ireland’s War of Independence, an Irish immigrant of the same name disappeared from …
The murder of a ‘land-grabber’ and the Land War in Kerry. By Mark Holan A thunderstorm swept across Pittsburgh in the early …