The Manchester martyrs: From last letters to lasting legends
By Mark Holan On 22 November 1867, Co. Cork native William P. Allen wrote his last letter “this side of the grave” …
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 …
The Illies and its environs in the 19th Century
Gearóid Mac Lochlainn on life in ‘Illies’ area of north Donegal in the 19th century. The Illies is a rural area …
Gallipoli and the Irish home front
Fionnuala Walsh on the impact the terrible Irish losses at Gallipoli in 1915 had back in Ireland. On the 25th of April …
Book Review: The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irish Woman and Soldier
Book Review: The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irish Woman and Soldier by Anne Holland Published by Colilns Press Reviewer: Lucy …
Book Review: Captain Jack White: Imperialism, Anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army
by Leo Keohane Published by Merrion Press, 2014. Reviewer: Daniel Murray When An Post issued a commemorative stamp of Jack White, first …