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On this day
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
Nationalism’s pilot light?
Despite the claim of Fenian elder statesman John O’Leary that it was, Richard Davis outlines how relations between the old and new movements were strained.
While attention has traditionally been focused on the armed-struggle component of revolutionary nationalism, here Rose Novak considers the broader dimensions of popular mobilisation, particularly of women.
Oliver P. Rafferty considers whether the Church’s condemnation of Fenianism was an unchanging moral position or a matter of political expediency.
How did a failed prison van escape become a retrospective propaganda success? Mervyn Busteed outlines the events that gave rise to Ireland’s most celebrated nineteenth-century martyrs.
Frank Rynne argues, with particular reference to the Land War, that propaganda, rather than its stated aim of insurrection, was the forte of the IRB.
International attention was focused on Brooklyn in the 1880s when Irish republicans resident there carried out a series of bomb attacks in Britain. Niall Whelehan looks at the city’s special school for training in the ‘arts of scientific warfare’.
James McConnel and Máirtín Ó Catháin explore the last manifestations of a long tradition of Irish military service for France.
Frederick O’Dwyer describes the construction of fortified police barracks by the Board of Works in the aftermath of the 1867 Fenian Rising, exemplified by the barrack at Ballyduff, Co. Waterford, still in use today as a Garda Station.
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