‘Are You With Me’? Interview with Mike Chinoy on Kevin Boyle and Human Rights
First broadcast on The Irish History Show, Cathal Brennan and John Dorney speak with Mike Chinoy on human rights activists Kevin Boyle. …
Book Review: A Difficult Birth: The Early Years of Northern Ireland 1920-25
By Alan Parkinson Published by Eastwood Books (2020) Reviewer: Kieran Glennon Alan Parkinson’s 2004 book, Belfast’s Unholy War: The Twenties’ Troubles, …
Tom Barry and the Road from Mesopotamia to Kilmichael
By John Dorney In 1915, aged 17, Thomas Bernadine Barry enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in Cork, as he recalled in …
‘The Green Frame of British Rule?’ – Irish in the Indian Civil Service
By Seán William Gannon In British-ruled India, a few tens of thousands of British administrators and soldiers ruled over between 2 to …
The Cattle Drives of 1920: Agrarian Mobilisation in the Irish Revolution
By Terry Dunne In 1925 Clare was bedecked with posters bearing what we might think of as a fiery revolutionary message. They …
Bloody Sunday 1920 Revisited
By John Dorney Today, November 21, 2020, is 100 years since the events known as ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Dublin in 1920. Over …
Podcast: Ireland and the Middle East in the British Empire
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the parallels between Ireland the British ruled Middle East after the First World World War. First …