Violence against Women in Belfast, 1920-22 – Part 2
Kieran Glennon Part 1 of this article examined the first two of the forms of violence against women in the revolutionary period …
Book Review: Without a Dog’s Chance, The nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Boundary Commission 1920-25
By James Cousins, Published by Irish Academic Press, 2020 ISBN:9781788551021 Reviewer: John Dorney As the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty approaches, …
The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Counting the Cost of the Revolutionary Period, 1920-22
By Kieran Glennon The “Belfast pogrom” was the term given to a period of intense political violence in that city which lasted …
The Battle of Fontenoy in Irish Nationalist Tradition
By Stephen McGarry May, 2020 marks the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) which took place during the War of …
Rathfarnham: a short history
By John Dorney The Dublin mountains look down on Rathfarnham, once a rural village and now a sprawling suburb, creeping slowly up …
Michael Collins, Northern Ireland and the Northern Offensive, May 1922
By Patrick Concannon As we enter the next few years of commemoration they will be dominated by huge historical events like the …
‘Trampling the rights of a free people’: Coercion in Nineteenth Century Ireland
By John Dorney According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act …