Some Thoughts on the Truce – 100 Years On
By John Dorney Today, July 11, 2021, marks 100 years since the final day of the Irish War of Independence. A Truce, …
Podcast: Brian Hanley on the Arms Crisis of 1970
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Brian Hanley on the Arms Crisis of 1970. First Broadcast on the Irish History Show. In …
From the Shipyards to the Poitín Still – Social Class and the IRA’s 3rd Northern Division
By Kieran Glennon In a survey of the social structure of the IRA across Ireland during the revolutionary period, Peter Hart declared …
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, …
The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Counting the Cost of the Revolutionary Period, 1920-22
By Kieran Glennon The “Belfast pogrom” was the term given to a period of intense political violence in that city which lasted …
Today in Irish History – 21st July 1920: The Start of the “Belfast Pogrom”
By Kieran Glennon. In the middle of July 1920, thousands of “disloyal” workers in Belfast were driven out of their workplaces by …
Today in Irish History, 22 June 1922 – The assassination of Henry Wilson
The killing of a British Field Marshal that helped to spark the Irish Civil War. By John Dorney The assassination On June …