The assassination of Walter Edward Guinness -Lord Moyne – 1944
By Ray Esten The foundation stone of a building at Trinity College Dublin was laid by the Hon. Grania Guinness of the …
Podcast: The Irish Revolution, the ‘Jewish Question’ and Antisemitism, with Brian Hanley
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the Irish and Jewish ‘Questions’ in the interwar period with Brian Hanley. First Broadcast on The …
Striking Against Colonialism: The General Strike in the Irish and Algerian Revolutions
By Dónal Hassett The recent Centenary of the Irish General Strike of 1920 has underlined the potential power of a movement that …
Book Review: The Quest for the Irish Celt: The Harvard Archaeological Mission to Ireland, 1932–1936
By Mairead Carew Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2018. Reviewer:Timothy Ellis Every now and then, it does historians good to take a …
‘To get up an anti-Fenian society in this country’: Ribbonism and republicanism in Ulster, 1850-1867.
Rival forms of popular Irish nationalism in 19th century Ulster. By Kerron Ó Luain Founded in Dublin and New York on …
Catalonia and Ireland
In the aftermath of the putative independence referendum in Catalonia, on October 1, 2017, John Dorney looks at some of the parallels …
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 …