One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
Filed under Michael Collins …
The Treaty: 100 Years on
It may help to know that the book is written by an Australian-born journalist, now living in Dublin. She comes to the story as a neutral outsider, unburdened by the many educational and social experiences that an Irish writer would carry. Continue reading
Soldier of the Irish Republic
‘The Facts are that the Irish Republic exists.’ Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
It is difficult to write about it – or, indeed, read about it – without anger, Continue reading
Irish History Circle on 24 April at 7.30pm
Irish History Circle – The Secret History of Dublin’s Streets and Cathal Brugha Continue reading
The Man Who Won The War
Michael Collins decided the best way was to have an intelligence system of his own, that would be superior to anything the British could do…. Continue reading
A Forgotten Hero
After all the excitement of the Rising, he worked doggedly to help people who had been part of it. Continue reading
Garrisoned in the GPO during Easter Week 1916
During Easter Week Lucy hid arms, and mobilised Cumann na mBan. In 1916 Lucy was romantically linked with Con Colbert, one of the sixteen executed leaders who called her ‘the nicest girl in Dublin.’ Continue reading
History is in the graveyards.
Exploring Glasnevin The process of providing detailed and dignified funerals for the Catholics of Ireland had been one that faced harsh limitations until the 1830s. The Penal Laws and ongoing discriminatory actions by religious and government officials journeyed through a process of repeal and debate, however it was a funeral in 1823 that altered the … Continue reading
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