Podcast: James Hoban – Irish architect of the White House
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Stewart McLauren of the White House Historical Association about James Hoban the Irishman who designed the …
The sinking of HMS Wasp, 1884 – A curse, sabotage or human error?
By John Joe McGinley In September 1884, a royal navy gunboat, on route to carry out an eviction sunk off the coast …
‘They were determined to obtain a sacrifice’: First Irish state executions of IRA members since the Civil War
By Gerard Shannon It was the night of 16 August 1940 and a worried Christy Quearney cycled through Dublin city’s southside. Quearney, …
Podcast: Anne Chambers on Peter Howe Browne, Lord Sligo: ‘the Great Leviathan’
Interview by John Dorney with Anne Chambers, the author ‘The Great Leviathan’, on Peter Howe Browne, the Marques of Sligo. First broadcast …
‘A Fiend in Human Shape’? The Life and Crimes of Thomas D. Huckerby
By Seán William Gannon The behaviour of the Black and Tans, the mostly British recruits into the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920-21, …
Podcast: Ireland the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the confrontation between the British Empire and the Zulu kingdom in 1879. We discuss the Irish …
Today in Irish History, 23 March 1921 – The Scramogue Ambush
By Thomas Tormey On 23 March 1921, Spy Wednesday, a combined force of the North Roscommon and South Roscommon Brigades launched a …