John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the colonisation and settlement of Ulster in the seventeenth century. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. We discuss: The Origins of the plantation i...
https://www.theirishstory.com/2024/05/13/podcast-the-ulster-plantation/
By John Dorney During fighting between pro and anti-Treaty forces in Limerick city in July 1922, Catherine Sexton was penned in her home in Quarry Lane, Garryowen. She was the 60-year-old widow o...
By Myles Dungan ‘Mayo people do not steal, and if they shot a stranger, it would only be by mistake for a Scotch farmer or an English agent.’ (Bernard Becker, Disturbed Ireland, 1881 ) Sinc...
By Dermot Meleady Published by Wordwell Press, 2023 Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll ISBN: 9781913934347 From a contemporary perspective, living in the Ireland which emerged from the revolutionary per...
By Ruairi Nolan The Volunteers of the eighteenth century were a group which embodied a rising Irish nationalism which predated that which we associate Irish reform, radicalism and independence. T...
By Niall Cullen Published by Routledge, 2024 Reviewer: John Dorney Minority national causes have often looked to each other for inspiration and education. It is also common for those with a sense...
Podcast with Cathal Brennan and John Dorney, first broadcast on the Irish History Show. Following on from our show on the Desmond rebellions, this show covers the war of 1594-1603 in which Gaelic...
https://www.theirishstory.com/2024/03/10/podcast-the-nine-yeas-war/
By John Dorney On 21 January 1824, Charles McCarthy, a British officer and Governor of the Sierra Leone and Gold Coast colonies, breathed his last under a tree near the Bonsa river. He had been f...
https://www.theirishstory.com/2024/02/29/sir-charles-mccarthy-from-wild-geese-to-west-africa/
By John Dorney The ‘decade of commemorations’, the series of hundred year anniversaries of the momentous events that marked the independence struggle and partition of Ireland 100 years ago, i...
https://www.theirishstory.com/2024/01/25/the-decade-of-centenaries-a-reflection/
By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social and cultural biography of the year 1932 in Irela...