Guerrilla Days in Kerry, an interview with Thomas Earls Fitzgerald
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald, who has been researching the Irish Revolution in County Kerry, talks to John Dorney of the Irish Story about …
“Don’t tell your mother or I’ll kill you.” The murder of baby William Holden, 1923.
Colm Wallace tells the story of a shocking crime in rural Kilkenny in April 1923. After the Civil War finished the Irish …
‘Rough and Ready Work’ – The Special Infantry Corps
John Dorney looks at a unit of the National Army raised during the Civil War of 1922-23 to put down agrarian agitation …
Book Review: Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome – Life in Medieval Ireland
By Finbar Dwyer Published by New Island Press, 2013 Reviewer: John Dorney Medieval Ireland is a world that is lost to …
Weapons of his own Forging: Edward Nangle, Controversial in Life and in Death
Patricia Byrne writes about an intriguing character and the impact of Protestant missionary work on Achill Island in the 19th Century. One …
Making Sense of the Irish Civil War – A Conversation with Gavin Foster
Professor Gavin Foster of the Department of Canadian Irish studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec in conversation with John Dorney about the Irish …
Book Review: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85
Title: The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-85 Author: Pat Finnegan ISBN: 978-1-84682-359-6 Price: €35.00 HB | …