Author response: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald on Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald I would firstly like to extend my thanks to John Dorney for his careful, measured and thoughtful review of …
Book Review: Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland 1918-1923
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a study of …
A Stroll Through Rebel Cork
By Dara Burke. Dara runs a Cork city walking tour in his spare time Picture the scene. Groups of armed men stalking Cork …
‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in …
Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in a national munitions strike, refusing …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …
The Italian arms importation scheme, 1920-1921
How the clandestine Irish Republic attempted to buy arms from Italian ultra-nationalist leader Gabriele D’Annunzio. By Jack Traynor As the guerrilla campaign …