The Spanish Armada: Myths and Misconceptions
By Michael Barry The Spanish Armada was a hugely important event in world history. In this article I begin by giving a …
Cora Hughes: An Irish Pasionaria
By Caroline Crowley To those of us reared in poverty it is not so difficult to take up the cause of emancipation …
The Belfast News Letter and the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney There were, effectively, two civil wars in Ireland in 1922-23. The first was within the new state of Northern …
Undermining democracy? The IRB and the 1918 election
By John O’Beirne Ranelagh. An adapted extract from his new book ‘The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924’. Without the IRB, there would not …
Book review: Ulster’s Lost Counties – Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …
The Plantation of Ulster: A Brief Overview
By John Dorney The Plantation of Ulster was the project by the English monarchy to colonise the northern province of Ireland with …
Podcast: the Ulster Plantation
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History …