The Illies and its environs in the 19th Century
Gearóid Mac Lochlainn on life in ‘Illies’ area of north Donegal in the 19th century. The Illies is a rural area …
Book Review: A Portrait of West-County Down
A Portrait of West-County Down Past and Present: An Exploration of Landscape, Population, Worship and Diversity. By Dr Francis Xavier McCorry Reviewer: …
John Jinks and the collapse of the Fifth Dail
Cathal Brennan on a moment in 1927 in which Irish history failed to turn. On the 16th of August 1927, the opposition …
Book Review: Locked Out – A Century of Irish Working Class Life
Editor: David Convery Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2013. Price: €24.95 or less from the publisher Reviewer: John Dorney There was a time when …
Making Sense of the Irish Civil War – A Conversation with Gavin Foster
Professor Gavin Foster of the Department of Canadian Irish studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in conversation with John Dorney about the Irish …
“The principal rallying-ground for the Larkinites” – The Swords Riot of 1913
Christopher Lee, author of a previous article on Finglas in the Lockout, looks at the great strike of 1913 in the County …
The General Strike and Irish independence
How the syndicalist idea of a general strike contributed to the independence of Ireland. By John Dorney In the late 19th …