Sir Charles McCarthy, from Wild Geese to West Africa
By John Dorney On 21 January 1824, Charles McCarthy, a British officer and Governor of the Sierra Leone and Gold Coast colonies, …
Book Review: Rewriting the Troubles, War and Propaganda in Ireland and Algeria
By Patrick Anderson Reviewer: Donal Hassett Published by Greenisland Press, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-3949573026 Patrick Anderson’s Rewriting the Troubles is engaging and frustrating …
The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Addendum
By Kieran Glennon Introduction Since the original The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom article was written, further research has been carried out …
‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in …
Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in a national munitions strike, refusing …
Podcast: Irish Army Deserters in the Second World War with Cían Harte
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Cian Harte, author of Heroes Or Traitors? Irish Deserters of WWII about Irish Army deserters in the …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …