E.D. Morel was imprisoned in 1917 for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act. His crime was to have sent a copy of his pamphlet Tsardom’s part […]

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A memorial committee was set up in Dublin in July 1919 with the purpose of creating an all-Ireland national war memorial to commemorate Irish soldiers who died in the First […]

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Tracing the responses of Irish visual artists to the First World War usually takes us out of Ireland and to painters whose ‘Irishness’ is sometimes debated. Conventionally, the two most […]

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William Conor was born into a working-class North Belfast Protestant family in 1881. His father was a sheet-metal worker and later a gas fitter. At national school his artistic ability […]

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One hundred years on, and there remain few periods of Irish history that are so confounded by myth and falsehood as that of the Great War. Indeed, I have repeated […]

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