Podcast: Ireland and Ukraine with Nadia Dobrianska
Interview by John Dorney with Ukrainian scholar Nadia Dobrianska on the history of Ukraine and its parallels with Ireland. In the wake …
Feed the School Children – Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine
Review of an Exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin. By Patricia Byrne. At the height of the Great Famine, …
The Greater War: Ireland and eastern Europe 1914-1922
John Dorney tries to fit Ireland’s experience of war and nationalist revolution into a wider European context. The First World War is …
‘Slaves or Freemen?’ Sean McDermott, the IRB and the psychology of the Easter Rising
Sean McDermott has been described as, “the mind behind the Easter Rising”. He wrote that he was “never so happy” as when …