‘A terror to the countryside’: Civil War reprisals in Cork and Kerry
By John Dorney It would have been difficult to convince members of the Irish Republican Army in July 1921, the time of …
Book Review: No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry
by Owen O’Shea Merrion Press, Newbridge 2022. ISBN97817835374333 Reviewer: Thomas Earls Fitzgerald In the summer of 1922 Free State army commanders Michael …
‘One Irregular was killed’: The death of John Lawlor of Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, 31 October 1922.
By Bryan MacMahon Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, has received very little attention from national or even local historians of the revolutionary years of …
Book Review: Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland 1918-1923
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a study of …
Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in a national munitions strike, refusing …
1888: An American Journalist in Ireland Meets Michael Davitt & Arthur Balfour
By Mark Holan American journalist William Henry Hurlbert traveled to Ireland in 1888 to report on “the social and economical conditions of …
Today in Irish History – August 22, 1922 – Béal na Bláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins
The death of Michael Collins, by John Dorney. On a country road in West Cork, on August 22 1922, a convoy of …