The Media War: Robert Erskine Childers in West Cork
By Anthony Barrett An important aspect of the Irish Civil War was the use of propaganda in the media by both sides …
The Cork Landings – August 8-10, 1922
On August 8 1922, pro-Treaty forces landed by sea in Cork, seizing the Free State’s second city from anti-Treaty forces. By John …
A CHALLENGE: Rewriting Arthur Griffith’s role in the Treaty negotiations
For nearly ninety years, Frank Pakenham’s 1935 account of the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks in London (Peace by Ordeal) has dominated the narrative …
Betrayal or breakthrough? Arthur Griffith, the Boundary Commission and an unsigned memorandum
By Colum Kenny ABSTRACT: The interpretation of certain events in London on the weekend of 12–13 November 1921 is central to any …
Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter The ‘Indiana Jones’ of Glenveagh Castle
By John Joe McGinley This is the story of a Yale educated Professor of art, Arthur Kingsley Porter an archaeologist, art historian, …
An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to ‘Historical’ Abuses in Ireland
By Maeve O’Rourke This is an adapted extract from an essay by Maeve O’Rourke in the recently published book REDRESS: Ireland’s …
‘Defacing our Deliverer’, The history of the William of Orange statue in Dublin
By John Dorney College Green in Dublin city centre was once the centre of the Protestant Kingdom of Ireland. On one side …