
‘In the hands of an armed mob’ – The Belfast Riots of 1864
By John Dorney On August 16, 1864, a citizen of Belfast wrote to a friend of his city, ‘The town is in …
By John Dorney On August 16, 1864, a citizen of Belfast wrote to a friend of his city, ‘The town is in …
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan of the Irish History Show discuss the history of the Orange Order and the Twelfth of July. …
July 2018 marks the 170th anniversary of the 1848 Young Ireland Rising. This article explores Irish Confederate activism in south Ulster, 1848, …
How a Catholic celebration in Dublin inflamed sectarian passions in Northern Ireland. By Barry Sheppard. Public religious commemorations, often exultant in tone, …
In recent articles on the Irish Story, Brian Hanley has looked the effects of the 1935 Belfast riots on southern Ireland. This …
John Dorney looks the fortunes of the Crowther and Knowles families of 19th century Dublin. They were working class Protestant unionists, whose 19th century …
We talk to military historian Padraig Lenihan, author of 1690: Battle of the Boyne, about the most famous Battle in Irish History. By …