‘A Hopeless and Thankless job’ The Dispensary Doctor in Ireland
By John Dorney Sickness in rural Ireland before modern times was a serious business. Medical help was hard to find. In 19th …
Did ‘the Normans’ invade Ireland?
Who were 12th century invaders of Ireland? By John Dorney Some years ago, at a conference on Dublin’s economic history, I listened …
Interview: Joe Connell on Guerrilla Warfare in Ireland 1919-1921
Joe Connell is the author of the newly published, The Shadow War, Michael Collins and the Politics of Violence. Here he is …
A Civil War as a sort of side-show? Partisan politics in the Irish Free State and the Eucharistic Congress of 1932
Barry Sheppard on a moment in Irish history when national and religious identity appeared mired in political conflict. In 1932 Dublin was …
Feed the School Children – Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine
Review of an Exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin. By Patricia Byrne. At the height of the Great Famine, …
Book Review: Conspirators: A Photographic History of Ireland’s Revolutionary Underground
By Shane Kenna Published by Mercier Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781781173541 Reviewer: Kerron Ó Luain Conspirators: a photographic history of Ireland’s revolutionary underground …
‘Trampling the rights of a free people’: Coercion in Nineteenth Century Ireland
By John Dorney According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act …