Today in Irish History – 21st July 1920: The Start of the “Belfast Pogrom”
By Kieran Glennon. In the middle of July 1920, thousands of “disloyal” workers in Belfast were driven out of their workplaces by …
Podcast: Youth culture and Loyalist paramilitaries with Gareth Mulvenna
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview historian Gareth Mulvenna on his work on how 1960s 70s Protestant youth culture in Belfast – …
Browsing the 1641 depositions
An examination of an online primary source on the 1641 rebellion. By John Dorney The 1641 rebellion was a Catholic uprising that …
‘Without Law or Justice’: Class conflict in the Irish border counties 1920-23.
How social strife accompanied the Irish revolution in the north midlands region. By John Dorney. At a meeting of evicted tenants at …
Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland
By Patricia Byrne Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2018 ISBN: 9781785371721 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “His was a crusade that failed to touch …
Women and the Achill Mission Colony
Protestant women missionaries on Achill island in the 19th century. By Patricia Byrne. (A version of this article was presented at the Heinrich …
‘Pleasant comfortable and wholesome’ – Dublin in the late 16th century
By John Dorney Travellers to Dublin in and around the year 1577 would have found not an Irish but an English city. …