Book Review: A City in Turmoil, Dublin 1919-1921
A City in Turmoil, Dublin 1919-1921 By Padraig Yeates Gill & Macmillan, 2012. Reviewer: John Dorney Padraig Yeates’ history of Dublin …
Heuston’s Fort – The Battle for the Mendicity Institute, 1916
A story from the Easter Rising 1916, by Paul O’Brien. For more on the Easter Rising, see our archive here. On Easter …
Book Review: Unlikely Rebels – The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom
Unlikely Rebels The Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom is a well written account of the role which the Gifford sisters
Ellen MacCarthy – The Survivor
John Dorney looks at the life of Ellen MacCarthy, who survived the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ireland. And her marriage. It is …
Today in Irish History, April 30, 1916, The Surrender in the Easter Rising
Over April 29th to May 1, 1916 the rebels of the Easter Rising surrendered. This is an adapted extract from John Dorney’s The Story of the …
Perspectives on the Easter Rising, Part II – Combat
In this second part of our audio feature on 1916, John Dorney talks to historians Padraig Yeates and Fearghal McGarry about the reality on …
The MacCarthys and the Nine Years War in Munster. 1595-1603
The Nine Years saw the final conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the Elizabethans. John Dorney looks at how it affected one powerful …