The Easter Rising in Galway, 1916
The Rising in rural Galway, by John Dorney In April 1916, central Dublin became a battlefield, but with the exception of one …
The Rising in rural Galway, by John Dorney In April 1916, central Dublin became a battlefield, but with the exception of one …
The murder of a ‘land-grabber’ and the Land War in Kerry. By Mark Holan A thunderstorm swept across Pittsburgh in the early …
By John Dorney The very name ‘Big House’ has a certain resonance in Irish historical memory. The Big House was the citadel …
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
By Gavin Foster Published by Palgrave MacMillan, London 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Irish history is often inward looking, almost navel gazing, obsessed …
Edited by Mel Farrell, Jason Knirck and Ciara Meehan, Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Politics and life …
Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the 1820s. Between 1821 …