Podcast: Commemorating the RIC
On this episode of the Irish History Show Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the recent controversy over the planned commemoration of …
Interview: Joe Connell on Guerrilla Warfare in Ireland 1919-1921
Joe Connell is the author of the newly published, The Shadow War, Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence. Here he is …
Podcast: Irish pro-Franco Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on Eoin O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade that fought on the Francoist side of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). …
Interview: Declan Power on the Irish Army in Lebanon
From 1978 until 2001 the Irish Army provided a battalion to UNIFIL the United Nations force in south Lebanon. Here security analyst …
Interview: Barry Sheppard on Muintir na Tire
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Barry Sheppard on his research on Muintir na Tire. Muintir na Tire was a voluntary organisation …
Interview: Richard Grayson on ‘Dublin’s Great Wars’
John Dorney interviews Richard Grayson on his recent book Dublin’s Great Wars, which examines Ireland’s capital city’s experience both of the First …
Podcast: The 1918 election
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the historic election of 1918. We discuss: Politics in Ireland before 1918, the restricted franchise, Home …