Podcast: Elections in Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to Catholic Emancipation
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss election to the Irish Parliament between 1691 and 1829. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. …
‘Defacing our Deliverer’, The history of the William of Orange statue in Dublin
By John Dorney College Green in Dublin city centre was once the centre of the Protestant Kingdom of Ireland. On one side …
The Strange History of the term ‘Tory’ in Ireland
By John Dorney In a famous scene of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, set in turn of the twentieth century Dublin, the protagonist Stephen …
Today in Irish History, The Repeal Meeting at Clontarf is Banned, 8 October 1843
John Dorney remembers the day that Daniel O’Connell’s agitation for Repeal of the Union between Britain and Ireland was halted in …
Today in Irish History -The Battle of the Boyne, July 12.
We talk to military historian Padraig Lenihan, author of 1690: Battle of the Boyne, about the most famous Battle in Irish History. By …