Wacław Tadeusz Dobrzyński—the man who got Douglas Hyde in trouble

Through the innocent gesture of inviting President Douglas Hyde to a soccer match between Poland and Ireland in 1938, Consul Dobrzyński—the first ever Polish diplomat to Ireland and otherwise a […]

‘Hypothetical bombing of a small town’—Guernica, 1937

Fact and fiction in contemporary Irish newspapers. By William Burton This year marks the 80th anniversary of the attack on Guernica on 26 April 1937 by the German Condor Legion. […]

Mickeen Cullens—Ireland’s forgotten hero of Messines

A providential encounter and one of the most remarkable tales of Irish bravery in the First World War. By Thomas Dillon On a Belgian battlefield in June 1917, Mickeen Cullens […]

The biggest explosion of the Great War?

Messines Ridge, 3am, 7 June 1917—an Irish soldier’s eyewitness account. By Seán Boyne Patrick Carroll would always remember the moment the massive explosion was set off by the sappers. It […]

George Russell—a literary witness to Irish history

On the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet, painter, mystic and advocate of agricultural cooperation. By Daniel Mulhall George Russell (AE), who was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, […]