Canon James McFadden – The fighting priest of Gweedore
By John Joe McGinley Canon James McFadden was a man of deep faith who fought for the rights of his parishioners against …
The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – Counting the Cost of the Revolutionary Period, 1920-22
By Kieran Glennon The “Belfast pogrom” was the term given to a period of intense political violence in that city which lasted …
Revisiting the ‘Limerick Pogrom’ of 1904
By Seán William Gannon On the evening of 11 January 1904, Fr John Creagh took the pulpit during mass at the Redemptorist …
Podcast: Belfast violence 1920-1922 with Kieran Glennon
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney here talk to Kieran Glennon, author of From Pogrom to Civil War, on the ‘Belfast Pogrom’ of …
‘In the hands of an armed mob’ – The Belfast Riots of 1864
By John Dorney On August 16, 1864, a citizen of Belfast wrote to a friend of his city, ‘The town is in …
Winter in Dublin
Whimsical seasonal thoughts. By John Dorney Today in Dublin, traffic crawls very slowly but somehow very frenetically along into the city centre. …
“To maintain the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland.”- The Launch of the Limerick Volunteers, 1914.
Liam Hogan remembers the founding of the Irish Volunteers in Limerick city in 1914. The 25th of January 2014 marked the …