The Killurin ambush 1922 and the Civil War in Wexford
The Killurin train ambush, July 1922 and the outbreak of civil war in County Wexford. By Aaron Ó Maonaigh The Irish Civil …
Book Review: Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War
By Gemma Clark Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014. Reviewer: John Dorney In this book, the author, Gemma Clark, attempts to quantify …
The Boys of the Old Brigade – The IRA Third Northern Division
Kieran Glennon, author of From Pogrom to Civil War – Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA, describes how this material charts the …
Podcast: Assassination and Execution, Ireland December 1922
Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on the assassination of Sean Hales and the reprisal executions of Rory O’Connor, Dick Barret, Lam Mellow …
The IRA’s War on Public Entertainment – The Amusements Order of 1923.
How the anti-Treaty IRA forbade ‘public amusements’ at a ‘time of national mourning’. By John Dorney On the morning of April 20, …
Interview: John Dorney on The Civil War in Dublin
Cathal Brennan interviews John Dorney on his new book, The Civil War in Dublin (Merrion Press, 2017) for the Irish History Show …
Mapping Civil War deaths in Dublin
By John Dorney. Based on the research for his new book The Civil War in Dublin, published by Merrion Press. This map …