‘They killed idealism in my soul’ – the end of the Irish Civil War
John Dorney If the Irish revolution began arguably with the Home Rule crisis of 1912-13, or perhaps with the Easter Rising of …
The Irish Defence Forces in the 1930s – Holding Pattern
By Eoin Kinsella By the time Fianna Fáil took office in March 1932 (supported by the Labour Party), the storm clouds of …
Today in Irish History, 10 April 1923, Liam Lynch is killed.
The death of Liam Lynch signalled the effective end of the Irish Civil War. By John Dorney A small group of trench-coated …
The Irish Army, the UN, Jadotville and the Congo
By John Dorney. For further context see our interview with Declan Power here. October 2016 saw the launch of a new Netflix …
Conference review – “Reflections on the Revolution in Ulster: The Irish Volunteers in the North, 1913-23”
As part of an outreach programme supported by the UK Lottery’s Heritage Fund, the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive (COFLA) in …
Weapons of the Irish Revolution Part III – The Civil War 1922-23
John Dorney wraps up a three part series with a look at the weapons of the Irish Civil War. See Part I …
‘We must forgive but we won’t forget’ – The Treaty debates in the border counties.
How was the Anglo-Irish Treaty received in the counties it made a frontier zone? By John Dorney. If you lived in the …