The Clones affray, 1922 – massacre or invasion?

On Saturday 11 February 1922 a gun battle at a County Monaghan railway station resulted in the deaths of four Ulster Special Constables, the local IRA commandant and the wounding […]

Harry Boland’s Irish revolution

David Fitzpatrick (Cork University Press, 335) ISBN 1859182224   In writing this biography at the request of Harry’s nephew and namesake Annraoi Ó Beolláin, David Fitzpatrick declared his objective to […]

The other women of 1916

In October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the Great War, the civilian voluntary effort to support Irish troops at home and at the front was coordinated for the […]

Paddy Butner: the boy in the GPO, 1916

‘Many people have claimed to be him. His real name was Paddy Butner. He was 9 years old’ (Desmond Ryan). Sir, —I am compiling information in order to write a […]

What happened afterwards?

Sir, —I read with interest about those who engineered or took part inthe Easter Rising of 1916 (HI 14.2, March/April 2006) but I would liketo know about the thousands of […]