Interview: Conor Mulvagh on the Home Rule Party
Conor Mulvagh, historian of the Irish Parliamentary Party, talks to John Dorney about the IPP or Home Rule Party that dominated Irish politics for nearly …
Conor Mulvagh, historian of the Irish Parliamentary Party, talks to John Dorney about the IPP or Home Rule Party that dominated Irish politics for nearly …
Book Review: Reshaping Ireland 1550-1700, Colonisation and its Consequences Edited by Brian Mac Cuarta Four Courts Press, 2011 Reviewer: John Dorney The …
John Dorney writes of Gaelic aristocrat Florence MacCarthy’s imprisonment and the Anglicisation of Munster. 1601-1640. You can read about Florence MacCarthy’s life …
A two-wheeled journey through the Pale. By John Dorney. I rode my bike from south Dublin to Carlingford in the Cooley peninsula …
This article on famine in Irish History looks at how war provoked famine and massive population loss and aided conquest in early …
Joanna Pierce looks at the importance of castles in consolidating the Norman presence in medieval Ireland. “The establishment of the new English …
John Dorney looks at the burning of the Big Houses in the Irish Revolution of 1919-23. Late on January 29, 1923, Lady Mayo …