Book Review: The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire
By Shane Kenna Published by The O’Brien Press, 2019 ISBN: 9781788490603 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain In the days after reading this …
The IRA’s War on Public Entertainment – The Amusements Order of 1923.
How the anti-Treaty IRA forbade ‘public amusements’ at a ‘time of national mourning’. By John Dorney On the morning of April 20, …
Book Review: A Formative Decade, Ireland in the 1920s
Edited by Mel Farrell, Jason Knirck and Ciara Meehan, Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2015 Reviewer: John Dorney Politics and life …
Book Review: Review: Running With Crows
Running with Crows, The Life and Death of a Black and Tan By DJ Kelly Reviewer: Kevin McCarthy The …
A Black and Tan Executed – The life and death of William Mitchell
The search for the short and tragic life of William Mitchell, Executed in Dublin in 1921. By DJ Kelly. On Tuesday 7th …
The IRA and the Emergency – An interview with Brian Hanley
John Dorney caught up with Brian Hanley to discuss the IRA during the Emergency (World War II). Click on the Link …
The Invincibles and the Phoenix Park killings
Shane Kenna tells the story of the militant underground Fenian group – The Invincibles of the 1880s and their assassination of the Chief Secretary …