Today in Irish History, The Truce, 11 July 1921
John Dorney remembers the last day of the Irish War of Independence
John Dorney remembers the last day of the Irish War of Independence
John Dorney looks at the life of Ellen MacCarthy, who survived the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ireland. And her marriage. It is …
The Nine Years saw the final conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the Elizabethans. John Dorney looks at how it affected one powerful …
The Munster Plantation – the English land confiscation and colonisation – hit the province after the Desmond Rebellions of the 1570s and …
In a previous article, March 1923, the Terror Month, John Dorney looked at the bloody events of March 1923 in Kerry. Here he talks …
March 1923, the penultimate month of the Irish Civil War, saw some of its most brutal acts. John Dorney looks at what …
John Dorney reports from a talk by Conor McCabe of the Labour History Society on the Railway strike of 1911. In late …