Podcast: Albert Altman and Leopold Bloom
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan speak to Vincent Altman O’Connor and Neil Davison about Albert Altman, the possible real life inspiration for …
Henrietta Street: From Townhouse to Tenement
By Timothy Murtagh Henrietta Street has many claims to fame. Some historians have pointed to it as one of the earliest examples of …
‘Lives Illuminated’ a glimpse at Irish-Jewish history
By John Dorney An exhibition in Stratford College, part of a project by their Transition year students, aided by as Saul Woulfson …
‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
‘He Died as a Prince’: Erskine Childers: Executed November 1922
By John Dorney Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. …
The Cork Landings – August 8-10, 1922
On August 8 1922, pro-Treaty forces landed by sea in Cork, seizing the Free State’s second city from anti-Treaty forces. By John …
‘Defacing our Deliverer’, The history of the William of Orange statue in Dublin
By John Dorney College Green in Dublin city centre was once the centre of the Protestant Kingdom of Ireland. On one side …