Michael Collins, Northern Ireland and the Northern Offensive, May 1922
By Patrick Concannon As we enter the next few years of commemoration they will be dominated by huge historical events like the …
Interview: Declan Power on the Irish Army in Lebanon
From 1978 until 2001 the Irish Army provided a battalion to UNIFIL the United Nations force in south Lebanon. Here security analyst …
Book Review: A Broad Church: the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2019 Reviewer: Gerard Madden Gearóid Ó Faoleán’s new book A Broad Church: the …
The Rise and Fall of the Dáil Courts, 1919-1922
By John Dorney The Republican or Dáil Courts were one of the signal achievements of the Irish nationalist revolution of 1919-21. Across …
Casualties of the Irish Civil War in County Cork
Counting the cost of the Civil War in County Cork. By John Dorney This article is an attempt to count the fatal …
Book Review: The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire
By Shane Kenna Published by The O’Brien Press, 2019 ISBN: 9781788490603 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain In the days after reading this …
A Civil War as a sort of side-show? Partisan politics in the Irish Free State and the Eucharistic Congress of 1932
Barry Sheppard on a moment in Irish history when national and religious identity appeared mired in political conflict. In 1932 Dublin was …