Wood Quay Man

TC: Perhaps we can begin by asking you to tell us something about your background. PW: I was born in Askeaton, Co. Limerick, 56 years ago. In 1966 I got […]

‘Too old at thirty-three’: the log of William Henry O’Brien, 1908–10

On 19 September 1908 Petty Officer Second Class William O’Brien left Dublin on the 9.20pm boat bound for Devonport and Portsmouth, the Royal Navy bases in the south of England. […]

Gaelic lordship and Tudor conquest: Tír Eoghain, 1541–1603

The O’Neill lordship of Tír Eoghain was the most powerful Gaelic lordship in Ireland. It was bigger than the modern county of Tyrone, taking in most of County Armagh and […]

How the Great Story could be better told…

Desmond Fennell takes a critical look at the dominant narrative of the ‘History of Europe’… and finds it wanting. In the 60 years before World War I, when Europe was […]

The Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the Great War

The Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914–1919 (SDGW) series was first published in 1921 and was compiled from official casualty returns. Each regiment and unit in the British army […]