Howth/ Kilcoole gunrunning

Ihe landing of arms at Larne on 30 March 1914 prompted the Irish Volunteers to purchase and bring ashore their own arms shipment. The O’Rahilly directed Darrell Figgis and Erskine […]

Massacre in West Cork: the Dunmanway and Ballygorman killings

BARRY KEANE Mercier Press £19.99 ISBN 9781781172032 The killing of thirteen Protestants in West Cork in April 1922—the ‘Ballygorman and Dunmanway massacre’—is one of the most disputed incidents in modern […]

16 Lives—Roger Casement

ANGUS MITCHELL O’Brien Press £13.85 ISBN 9781847172648 Amongst the sixteen men executed after the 1916 Rising, the one whose role is most difficult to evaluate is Roger Casement. He comes […]

The Rising dead: RIC & DMP

RAY BATESON Irish Graves Publications £17.50 ISBN 9780954227531 If Ray Bateson was lucky enough to be a tenured professor of modern Irish history with an army of research students chomping […]

Events

May 1 Thur 8pm Mount Merrion Historical Society, Mount Merrion Community Centre. Birth of aviation in Ireland, Paddy Donohue. Adm. ?4. 6 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen […]