Podcast: Youth culture and Loyalist paramilitaries with Gareth Mulvenna
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview historian Gareth Mulvenna on his work on how 1960s 70s Protestant youth culture in Belfast – …
Book Review: A Broad Church: the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2019 Reviewer: Gerard Madden Gearóid Ó Faoleán’s new book A Broad Church: the …
Revisiting the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement: 1968-69
By John Dorney This year, 2018, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement. Its first …
Book Review: Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier, Irish Security Policy 1969-1978
By Patrick Mulroe Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Madden. Since June 2016, Brexit has dominated public discourse in both …
Censorship, Internment and Section 31, Interview with Brian Hanley.
An interview with Brian Hanley on the impact of the Northern Ireland conflict on the Republic of Ireland, during the conflict’s most …
Interview: Brian Hanley on Martin McGuinness, his life and times.
John Dorney speaks to historian Brian Hanley on the context to the paramilitary and political career of Martin McGuinness.
Martin McGuinness 1950-2017
By John Dorney Martin McGuinness always cut a striking figure. From a youthful, blonde shaggy haired Provisional IRA commander in Derry in …