The Gardaí in the 1920s – A Troubled Beginning
By Colm Wallace, whose new book The Fallen details Gardaí who lost their lives in the line of duty. The Gardaí have …
Book Review: After the Rising: Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution,
By Seán Enright Published by: Irish Academic Press (2016) Reviewer: Daniel Murray Thomas Traynor was charged with murder on the 6th April …
“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 …
Nora’s Sorrow – The Murder of John Foran, 1888
The murder of a ‘land-grabber’ and the Land War in Kerry. By Mark Holan A thunderstorm swept across Pittsburgh in the early …
‘The Mad Dance of Death’: The Ulster Protestant Association in Belfast, 1921-22
Loyalist paramilitaries and the birth of the Northern Irish state. By Michael C. Rast In late 1921, a Belfast police officer …
Margaret Keogh – The woman who died for Ireland.
By Padraig Og O Ruairc For a long time the women who fought for Irish freedom the 1916 Rising and the War …
In the Presence of His Enemies: The Controversy of James Dalton, May 1920
Daniel Murray on the murky, unsolved killing of IRA intelligence officer James Dalton in May 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. …