Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.
By Kieran McNulty From late May to December 1920 the railway unions in Ireland took part in a national munitions strike, refusing …
Today in Irish History: The Headford ambush, March 21, 1921.
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald on a bloody action in Kerry during the Irish War of Independence. On the 21st March 1921, the most …
Guerrilla Days in Kerry, an interview with Thomas Earls Fitzgerald
Thomas Earls Fitzgerald, who has been researching the Irish Revolution in County Kerry, talks to John Dorney of the Irish Story about …
The War of Independence in Kerry
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Curiously, for all its republican heritage a conception has existed for some time of Kerry being inactive in …
The Siege of Tralee, November 1 – 9, 1920.
John Dorney on an ugly cycle of reprisals in Kerry in the War of Independence. On 31 October 1920, the Sinn Fein Lord …
Today in Irish History, Roundup at Midnight Mass, 24 December 1922
A short seasonal tale of the Irish Civil War in Kerry. By John Dorney. Curragheen, County Kerry, Christmas Eve, 1922. Twenty two …
John Dorney interviewed about Ballyseedy
In a previous article, March 1923, the Terror Month, John Dorney looked at the bloody events of March 1923 in Kerry. Here he talks …