Opinion: What kind of future did the Men of 1916 dream of?
By John Dorney For 100 years now in Ireland, when we are facing some national crossroads, someone will inevitably invoke the ‘men …
Opinion: Remembrance and Reconciliation: Heroes in the Irish War of Independence
Donald Masterson on healing the wounds of the Irish independence struggle. As Ireland enters the first years of its decade long …
Remembering the Lockout
Remembering the Dublin Lockout, one hundred years on. By John Dorney The Lockout of 1913, the great strike that brought Dublin …
The Rabble and the Republic
John Dorney looks at how the Irish separatist movement interacted with the population of the Dublin slums during the years of the Great War …
Opinion: Remembering World War I in Ireland
An opinion piece on Ireland, the Great War and its memory. By John Dorney. For more articles on WWI and Ireland see …
The Big House and the Irish Revolution
John Dorney looks at the burning of the Big Houses in the Irish Revolution of 1919-23. Late on January 29, 1923, Lady Mayo …
‘Slaves or Freemen?’ Sean McDermott, the IRB and the psychology of the Easter Rising
Sean McDermott has been described as, “the mind behind the Easter Rising”. He wrote that he was “never so happy” as when …