Robert Byrne – the IRA Volunteer and Trade Unionist whose killing sparked the “Limerick Soviet”.
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Although there had been some skirmishes between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces in Ireland …
Book Review: Soldiering Against Subversion
Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security during the Troubles, 1969-1998 By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press (2018) …
Opinion: Did the ambush at Soloheadbeg begin the Irish War of Independence?
By John Dorney On January 21 1919, the First Dail – the rebel parliament of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic – met …
Book Review: The Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland 1968-1979, A Boiling Volcano?
By Brian Hanley Published by Manchester University Press, 2018 Reviewer: John Dorney All of us who grew up in the south of …
Book Review: Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier, Irish Security Policy 1969-1978
By Patrick Mulroe Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Madden. Since June 2016, Brexit has dominated public discourse in both …
‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918
How the attempt to impose conscription on Ireland was defeated in 1918. By John Dorney. In April 1918, the British government of …
“The road for the cattle – the land for the People” The Castlefergus Cattle Drive and the death of IRA Volunteer John Ryan
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc looks at the shooting of IRA Volunteer John Ryan who was shot dead by the RIC at a …