Podcast: Albert Altman and Leopold Bloom
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan speak to Vincent Altman O’Connor and Neil Davison about Albert Altman, the possible real life inspiration for …
Podcast: The Economic War 1932-38
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the trace war between Ireland and Britain in the 1930s. First broadcast on the Irish History …
The Economic War, 1932-38
By John Dorney In 2025, the world has once again become acutely aware of the use of tariffs as an instrument of …
‘An indelible imprint’ – Irish Penal Transportation to Australia
By John Dorney On 26 September 1791, two convict ships landed at Bottany Bay, at Sydney, Australia. One was the Active from …
When three American journalists visited ‘Paddy the Cope’ in Dungloe, 1919-1922
By Mark Holan Dungloe (An Clochán Liath) in County Donegal is 170 miles northwest of Dublin, about a three-and-a-half-hour drive today. The …
‘Conducive to the improvement of the country’, The Coolattin Wentworth-Fitzwilliam estate, County Wicklow
By John Dorney Coolattin estate, located in southern County Wicklow, once sprawled across nearly half of the county, taking in thousands of …
Cora Hughes: An Irish Pasionaria
By Caroline Crowley To those of us reared in poverty it is not so difficult to take up the cause of emancipation …