Podcast: Brian Hanley on the Arms Crisis of 1970
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview Brian Hanley on the Arms Crisis of 1970. First Broadcast on the Irish History Show. In …
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.