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The Irish Story is a digital publisher of informed and accessible Irish history ebooks that tackles important issues in Irish History and explains them for a general audience. Our blog features interesting articles, book reviews, audio interviews, and pieces on topical events written by a range of authors and contributors, all for free.
The Irish Story
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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 of national struggle, to see their cause and themselves, reflected in other countries, as perhaps we can see ..read more
The Irish Story
1M ago
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 Ulster, under the leadership of Hugh O’Neill, was finally conquered by the English Crown. https://irishhistoryshow.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/NineYearsWar.mp3 See also ..read more
The Irish Story
2M ago
By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social ..read more
The Irish Story
2M ago
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, are over. It has been a strange process, in some ways, a mixture of exhilaration, frustration, discord, togetherness and division. At ..read more
The Irish Story
3M ago
Happy New Year to all Irish Story readers and contributors! These were our top ten most read articles of 2023. Top Ten Articles The First battle of Marrowbone, Belfast 1920, by Gus McKendry War along the Border, Ireland 1922 by John Dorney ‘A Terror to the Countryside’, Civil War reprisals ..read more
The Irish Story
4M ago
By Eoin Kinsella, Published by: Four Courts Press, (2023), 360 pp. ISBN: 9781801510363 Reviewer: Jack Kavanagh Eoin Kinsella’s study of the Irish Defence Forces provides a much-needed official history that spans the first century of the Defence Forces. As this book is essentially an institutional history and was the ..read more
The Irish Story
4M ago
By Christopher Lee. In 1923, after days of heavy rain the ground around the Mountjoy Prison blocks became sodden. An armoured car ..read more
The Irish Story
4M ago
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Desmond rebellions of the late sixteenth century in Munster First broadcast on The Irish History ..read more
The Irish Story
4M ago
By John Joe McGinley One of the most famous characters who inhabited the violent landscape of the Five Points Irish enclave of lower Manhattan in New York was Bill ‘the Butcher’ Poole. An outspoken opponent of Irish Roman Catholic immigration into the United States, his notorious gang the Bowery ..read more
The Irish Story
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In August 1923 the Irish Free State had its first general election after the Irish Civil War. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney are joined by Mel Farrell and Elaine Callinan on the new book on the subject they edited with Thomas Tormey. First broadcast on the Irish History Show. We ..read more