The Belfast News Letter and the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney There were, effectively, two civil wars in Ireland in 1922-23. The first was within the new state of Northern …
Book review: Ulster’s Lost Counties – Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …
Book Review: Homeward Bound, Return Migration from Ireland and India at the End of the British Empire
By Niamh Dillon Published by New York University Press, 2022 Reviewer: Sean William Gannon Niamh Dillon’s new book Homeward Bound compares …
The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Addendum
By Kieran Glennon Introduction Since the original The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom article was written, further research has been carried out …
Podcast: Ian Paisley with Ed Moloney
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview journalist Ed Moloney on the career of unionist leader Ian Paisley. First broadcast on the Irish …
Book Review: My Life in Loyalism
By Billy Hutchinson and Garreth Mulvenna Published by Merrion Press 2020 Reviewer: Daniel Murray Like many a young man in Northern Ireland …
Book Review: Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier, Irish Security Policy 1969-1978
By Patrick Mulroe Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Madden. Since June 2016, Brexit has dominated public discourse in both …