A Stroll Through Rebel Cork
By Dara Burke Picture the scene. Groups of armed men stalking Cork city, firing into the air, smashing shop windows, setting …
‘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 …
Major-General Patrick Ronanye Cleburne: Cork’s Confederate General
By Ray Esten Patrick Royanye Cleburne was one the most revered military leaders of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. …
Podcast: Tom Barry and the Kilmichael ambush
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss Tom Barry and the Kilmichael Ambush of November 1920. First Broadcast on the Irish History Show. …
Today in Irish History -The Shooting of Tomás MacCurtain, March 20, 1920
The assassination of the Lord Mayor of Cork, March 20, 1920. By John Dorney Early in the morning of March 20, 1920, …
The Parnell Bridge Ambush, Cork, 4 January 1921
By Caoimh Mulvany County Cork was the epicentre of guerrilla warfare in the Irish revolution; a storm that swept over the Provence …
Casualties of the Irish Civil War in County Cork
Counting the cost of the Civil War in County Cork. By John Dorney This article is an attempt to count the fatal …