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 …
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 …
Podcast: The UCC Irish Civil War Fatalities Project
Cathal Brennan discusses the Irish Civil War Fatality Project of University College Cork with John Dorney, who was one of the principle …
The UCC Civil War Fatality Project – Counting the dead of the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney During fighting between pro and anti-Treaty forces in Limerick city in July 1922, Catherine Sexton was penned in her …
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 …
The Tunnellers of Mountjoy,1923
By Christopher Lee. In 1923, after days of heavy rain the ground around the Mountjoy Prison blocks became sodden. An armoured car …
Podcast: The General Election of 1923
In August 1923 the Irish Free State had its first general election after the Irish Civil War. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney …