Book Review: Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic
By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a …
‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne
Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian agitation, land reform and political upheaval in Ireland from 1919 to 1923. First aired …
‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace talks in London during the Civil War
By Karl O’Hanlon In February 1923, as the Civil War raged in Ireland, W.T. Cosgrave secretly met Irish peer Lord Granard and …
Podcast: Executions during the Irish Civil War
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Government policy of execution during the Civil War of 1922-23. See also this article on …
Book Review: No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry
by Owen O’Shea Merrion Press, Newbridge 2022. ISBN97817835374333 Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald In the summer of 1922 Free State army commanders Michael …
Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of their Battle with the IRA, 1922-1947
By Gerard Lovett Published by Eastwood Books (2022) ISBN: 978-1-913934-29-3 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Book Review: Ireland’s Special Branch: The Inside Story of …