
‘A Hard Bargain’ An Analysis of the Social and Economic Background of Kerry in the Early Twentieth Century
Life and work in County Kerry, 100 years ago. By Kieran McNulty Sunday was “hiring–day” for the farmers and farm labourers gathered outside …
Life and work in County Kerry, 100 years ago. By Kieran McNulty Sunday was “hiring–day” for the farmers and farm labourers gathered outside …
By John Joe McGinley Mary Harris Jones, a proud Cork woman, was a teacher, seamstress, labour activist and union organiser. A champion …
By John Dorney According to the Republican historian Dorothy MacArdle, in the 19th century Ireland was governed, ‘almost continuously since the Act …
A sketch of Dublin city on the eve of Irish independence. By John Dorney Dublin city, bounded by its two canals, had …
By John Dorney. See our other overviews here. The Great Famine was a disaster that hit Ireland between 1845 and about 1851, …
Poverty, inequality, and food riots in Limerick City in the 1830s. By Liam Hogan. The 1830s were an especially desperate time for …
Loyalist paramilitaries and the birth of the Northern Irish state. By Michael C. Rast In late 1921, a Belfast police officer …