Book Review: My Life in Loyalism
By Billy Hutchinson and Garreth Mulvenna Published by Merrion Press 2020 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Like many a young man in Northern Ireland …
Book Review: The ‘Labour Hercules’: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913-23, by Jeffrey Leddin (2019)
By Jeffrey Leddin Published by Merrion Press (2019) Reviewer: Daniel Murray “If you or anybody else expect that I’m going to waste …
Book Review: Markievicz: Prison Letters & Rebel Writings
By Constance Markievicz (edited by Lindie Naughton) Published by Irish Academic Press (Newbridge, 2018) Reviewer: Daniel Murray “It is awfully funny being …
Sieges and Shootings: The decline of the RIC in Westmeath, 1920
Daniel Murray looks at how a combination of political pressure, resignations and armed attacks by the IRA undermined the Royal Irish Constabulary …
The Irish Story Top 10 Articles of 2014
Happy New Year! Last year the Irish Story was visited more than 285,000 times with an average of 780 visits per day. …
A Bitter Brotherhood: The War of Words of Séumas Robinson
Daniel Murray on Seumas Robinson’s re-telling of his War of Independence. See also Seumus Robinson’s War of Independence. A Man for all the …
Bushwhacked: The Loss of the Carlow Flying Column, April 1921
Daniel Murray on an IRA reverse during the Irish War of Independence On the 21st of April 1921, Pádraig Kane, an adjutant …