Partition and the South Longford by-election
2 May 2017
The South Longford by-election of May 1917 is principally remembered as one in which a republican prisoner was elected on the slogan “Put him in to get him out” but equally important in achieving a republican victory at the polls was the renewed threat by the British Government to partition Ireland. Free article
The first Easter Rising commemoration
3 April 2017
THE FIRST commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising was held in Dublin at Easter 1917 and was an act of defiance of British military rule. Free article
Book Reviews: Roots of the Rising leaders and A book for men and women
13 March 2017
Seven Signatories: Tracing the Family Histories of the Men Who Signed the Proclamation and Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922 Free article
Ireland’s forgotten politician
16 January 2017
A committee member for the Gaelic League, he worked behind the scenes for Sinn Féin Free article
Fr Michael O’Flanagan and the Roscommon by-election
16 January 2017
BY JANUARY 1917, many of the hundreds of Irish political prisoners interned in Fron Goch Camp in north Wales had been released. But many were still imprisoned in England. Others, like Count Plunkett, were legally excluded from Ireland. Free article
Champion of underdogs of the world and Ten views of Ernie O’Malley
16 January 2017
Michael Davitt: After the Land League, 1882 -1906 and Modern Ireland and Revolution: Ernie O’Malley in Context Free article
Contrary account of ‘The Countess’
1 December 2016
Markievicz – A Most Outrageous Rebel By Lindie Naughton. Merrion Press €17.99 & €39.99 Free article
Connolly comrade Winifred Carney’s portrait unveiled in Belfast by great-nephew
10 November 2016
1916 Irish republican socialist hero from County Down returned north and involved herself in the political and military struggles that followed the Rising Free article
Academic autopsy of Tan War revisionism
1 November 2016
Truce: Murder, Myth and the Last Days of the Irish War of Independence. By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. Mercier Press €17.99 Free article
Cases of bias
1 November 2016
After the Rising: Soldiers, Lawyers and Trials of the Irish Revolution. By Seán Enright. Irish Academic Press €17.50 / €45 Free article
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