The life and death of IRA Volunteer Michael McInerney (1899-1921)
By Sam McGrath An impressive Celtic cross is the focal point of the Republican Plot in Deansgrange Cemetery, South Dublin. Unveiled in …
Book Review: From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3295-6 By Donnacha O Beacháin Published by Manchester University Press (2018) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh The spectre of Brexit hangs over …
Book Review: Dublin’s Great Wars
Dublin’s Great Wars, The First World War, The Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution By Richard Grayson Published By Cambridge University Press, …
The IRA’s War on Public Entertainment – The Amusements Order of 1923.
How the anti-Treaty IRA forbade ‘public amusements’ at a ‘time of national mourning’. By John Dorney On the morning of April 20, …
Interview: Tomas MacConmara on 1917 in Ireland and the death of Thomas Ashe
Tomas MacConmara has written a new book entitled Days of Hunger, the Clare Volunteers and the Mountjoy Hunger strike of 1917. Here …
The 2016 Rising centenary: What did it all mean?
By John Dorney The year 2016 marked the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. At the start of the year I wrote …
Book Review : Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 1: 1968-1978
By Ruan O’Donnell Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Irish Academic Press (January 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0716531410 ISBN-13: 978-0716531418 Reviewer: Mícheál Ó hAodha …