‘Without Law or Justice’: Class conflict in the Irish border counties 1920-23.
How social strife accompanied the Irish revolution in the north midlands region. By John Dorney. At a meeting of evicted tenants at …
Colliding worlds? Shane the Proud and the advance of the Tudors in Ireland
By John Dorney In 1562, Shane O’Neill, lord of the powerful O’Neill dynasty in Ulster, arrived at the Court of Queen Elizabeth …
Hazelwood House during the Emergency Years
By Terence O’Reilly “Officers and other ranks are drafted in and soon begin to take a pride in their new unit; …
‘Rough and Ready Work’ – The Special Infantry Corps
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
Women and the Achill Mission Colony
Protestant women missionaries on Achill island in the 19th century. By Patricia Byrne. (A version of this article was presented at the Heinrich …
‘We must forgive but we won’t forget’ – The Treaty debates in the border counties.
How was the Anglo-Irish Treaty received in the counties it made a frontier zone? By John Dorney. If you lived in the …
July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
July 1935 saw vicious sectarian rioting in Belfast. Here in a follow up to his article on the riot in Limerick, Brian …