Deliberate Amnesia? The Irish Volunteers’ plan to assassinate the British Cabinet, 1918.
The plan to wipe out the British government in 1918 and the subsequent attempt to forget it ever existed. By Fergus O’Farrell …
Sixteen Glasgow Volunteers in the Irish Revolution
The story of sixteen Glasgow based Irish Volunteers 1916-1923. By Thomas Tormey At Easter 1916 sixteen members of the Glasgow unit of …
Book Review: John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880-1918.
Edited by Dermot Meleady Published by Irish Academic Press, 2018. Reviewer: Diarmuid Bolger John Redmond, the Wexford-born leader of the Irish Parliamentary …
‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918
How the attempt to impose conscription on Ireland was defeated in 1918. By John Dorney. In April 1918, the British government of …
Women, the Vote and Nationalist Revolution in Ireland
Women, the right to vote and the struggle for Irish independence. By John Dorney This year, 2018, marks the centenary of women’s …
Book Review: Monteith: The Making of a Rebel
By Catherine C. Smyth (2017) Reviewer: Daniel Murray Roger Casement was a sick man. Amidst all the uncertainties facing the tiny band …
‘Preserving the spirit of the movement’: The IRA, the Broadway Cinema and the 1943 Easter Rising commemoration
By Alison Martin In comparison to some of the Easter Rising commemorations which took place around the time of key anniversaries, there …