Book review: Ulster’s Lost Counties – Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
By Edward Burke Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The late doyen of northern historians, Éamon Phoenix, often recounted …
Podcast: the Ulster Plantation
John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History …
Book Review: A People Under Siege – The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond
By Aaron Edwards Published by Merrion Press, 2023 Reviewer: Kieran Glennon The titles of recent books examining unionism are instructive, Susan …
War along the Border: Ireland 1922
The second in a two-part article on the Irish War of Independence in the border counties. Part one here. By John Dorney …
Podcast: Ian Paisley with Ed Moloney
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney interview journalist Ed Moloney on the career of unionist leader Ian Paisley. First broadcast on the Irish …
Podcast: The 1641 Rebellion
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the start of the great convulsion of mid seventeenth century Ireland. First broadcast on the Irish …
Colliding worlds? Shane the Proud and the advance of the Tudors in Ireland
By John Dorney In 1562, Shane O’Neill, lord of the powerful O’Neill dynasty in Ulster, arrived at the Court of Queen Elizabeth …