The Decade of Centenaries: A Reflection
By John Dorney The ‘decade of commemorations’, the series of hundred year anniversaries of the momentous events that marked the independence struggle …
Podcast: Irish Revolutionary Women with Liz Gillis and Mary McAuliffe
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak to Liz Gillis and Dr Mary McAuliffe on the republican women and Cumman nn mBan, the …
‘The only Irishman that was incorruptible’: Seán Russell and the IRA (Part One, 1893-1930)
By Gerard Shannon. This is the first in a two-part article. It was a grim, low-key farewell. On August 14th 1940, roughly …
Book Review: The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913-23, by Jeffrey Leddin (2019)
By Jeffrey Leddin Published by Merrion Press (2019) Reviewer: Daniel Murray “If you or anybody else expect that I’m going to waste …
‘A faithful soldier of the Republic’: The story of Jinny Shanahan
By John Dorney In 1916, during the Easter insurrection in Dublin city, a young Irish Citizen Army woman was one of party …
Sixteen Glasgow Volunteers in the Irish Revolution
The story of sixteen Glasgow based Irish Volunteers 1916-1923. By Thomas Tormey At Easter 1916 sixteen members of the Glasgow unit of …
‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918
How the attempt to impose conscription on Ireland was defeated in 1918. By John Dorney. In April 1918, the British government of …