‘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 …
Book Review: Frank Aiken’s War, The Irish Revolution 1916-1923
Frank Aiken’s War, The Irish Revolution 1916-1923 By Matthew Lewis Published by UCD Press, Dublin 2014. Reviewer: John Dorney It is not …
Book Review: Frank Aiken, Nationalist and Internationalist
Edited by Bryce Evans and Stephen Kelly, Published by Irish Academic Press, Dublin 2014 ISBN:978-07165-3239-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Frank Aiken is one …
Today in Irish History, August 14, 1922, The anti-Treaty IRA attack on Dundalk
A rare military success for the anti-Treaty side during the Irish Civil War. By John Dorney. At around 4:00 am on the …
Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist
Almost uniquely amongst the leading figures of the Irish revolutionary period, 1916-1923, Frank Aiken (1898-1983) does not have a biography devoted to …
March 1923 – The Terror Month
March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what …
Brian Hanley on the IRA – Part I – Ideology
In the first of a two-part interview, John Dorney talks to Brian Hanley, author of The IRA A Documentary History, 1919-2005, about …