‘A faithful soldier of the Republic’: The story of Jinny Shanahan
By John Dorney In 1916, during the Easter insurrection in Dublin city, a young Irish Citizen Army woman was one of party …
The 2016 Rising centenary: What did it all mean?
By John Dorney The year 2016 marked the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. At the start of the year I wrote …
‘Up us!’ – The launch of the Kilmainham Gaol graffiti website.
John Dorney reports on the launch of a new initiative to document the graffiti left by political prisoners at Kilmainham Gaol in …