Book Review: Arthur Griffith
By Owen McGee Published by Merrion Press, 2015. Reviewer: Gerard Shannon Though Arthur Griffith has been the subject of recent studies of specific …
The Burning of the Big Houses Revisited 1920-23
By John Dorney The very name ‘Big House’ has a certain resonance in Irish historical memory. The Big House was the citadel …
‘Rough and Ready Work’ – The Special Infantry Corps
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
Book Review: Emmet Dalton, Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer
By Sean Boyne, Published by Merrion Press, 2014. Reviewer: John Dorney Emmet Dalton’s career is so unlikely it seems amazing that no …
Report on Talk: ‘Establishing the Free State in Conflict’
John Dorney reports on the public talk on June 6, 2015, ‘Establishing the Free State in conflict’ by Irish military archives at …
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 …
Winter in Dublin
Whimsical seasonal thoughts. By John Dorney Today in Dublin, traffic crawls very slowly but somehow very frenetically along into the city centre. …