Podcast: Liam Lynch with Gerard Shannon
It is now 100 years ago that Liam Lynch, head of the anti-Treaty IRA was killed. Here we discuss lynch’s life and …
Book Review: Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic
By Gerard Shannon Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: John Dorney ISBN: 9781788558211 Price: E19.99 One hundred years ago this April (2023) a …
‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in …
‘Worthy successor of Tone and Casement’? Seán Russell and the IRA, (Part Two, 1931-40)
By Gerard Shannon. This is the second in a two-part article, the first can be found here. On Sunday, 9th September 1951, …
The Irish Story Top Ten articles of 2016
The year 2016, the year of the Easter Rising centenary was a record year for the Irish Story with over 685,000 views …
The Irish Story’s Top Posts of 2015
Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors! In 2015 we had 500,000 views and 290,000 visitors. Our now annual review …
The Sinn Féin Rebellion? Arthur Griffith’s Easter Week 1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith, Sinn Féin and the insurrection of Easter 1916. ‘The Sinn Féin Rebellion’ became a popular, though paradoxical, …