‘Pleasant comfortable and wholesome’ – Dublin in the late 16th century
By John Dorney Travellers to Dublin in and around the year 1577 would have found not an Irish but an English city. …
The Sack of Leuven and Irish participation in World War One.
Stephen McGarry on the ‘Rape of Belgium’ in 1914 and Irish participation in the First World War. August marks the centenary of …
Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist
Almost uniquely amongst the leading figures of the Irish revolutionary period, 1916-1923, Frank Aiken (1898-1983) does not have a biography devoted to …
The North King Street Massacre, Dublin 1916
Fifteen civilians were shot or bayoneted to death by soldiers from the South Staffordshire regiment during the Easter Rising. By John Dorney.(Updated …
The Irish Story archive on the Easter Rising
This is an archive of Irish Story articles on the 1916 Rising from 2010 onwards, including articles, interview and book reviews. Articles …
Today in Irish History, Cromwell Storms Drogheda, 11 September 1649
Cromwell’s sack of Drogheda and the massacre of the Royalist garrison by the New Model Army in 1649. By John Dorney On …
March 1923 – The Terror Month
March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what …