Jan Smuts and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921
Jack Traynor Jan Smuts, a one-time Boer general turned South African statesman and British diplomat, made a dramatic intervention in Ireland in …
Podcast: Ireland the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the confrontation between the British Empire and the Zulu kingdom in 1879. We discuss the Irish …
Ireland and the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
By John Dorney On January 22, 1879, under a mountain named Isandlwana, a Zulu force, some 20,000 strong attacked a British military …
Remembering Patrick O’Donnell: The Man who Avenged the Invincibles
By John Joe McGinley Patrick O’Donnell from the parish of Gaoth Dobhair in County Donegal was hanged at New Gate prison on …
Ireland and South African Politics – A Tangled History
On the day after the death of the iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela, John Dorney has a quick look at how …
Historical Perspective | Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa (1880-99
Fascinating book from the sound of this review: Few of these desperadoes would be remembered except for their criminal exploits, but other …