Lives, Letters and Liberty— An Post Museum

An Post’s museum is located in the historic General Post Office on O’Connell Street, which itself is due to be the centre of much attention next year, the centenary of […]

Charlie

Charles J. Haughey did not come cheap. Neither did this much-hyped three-part mini-series on the life, or excerpts thereof, of the notorious former taoiseach, which apparently cost €4 million to […]

‘The Judge’ versus ‘the Chief’— Daniel Cohalan and the 1920 split within Irish America

The split centred around a bitter dispute between two men, Judge Daniel Cohalan, leader of the Irish-American nationalist organisation Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF), and Éamon de Valera, then leading […]

It’s a long way to Gallipoli

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary—An Irish Story of the Great War follows the daily lives of a single family from July 1914 to December 1918 through weekly posts of […]

The ‘Dubsters’— V Beach, 25 April 1915

The regular units of the British Army were unable to meet the demands of the war. New divisions of volunteers were raised in 1914, including three Irish divisions—the 10th (Irish), […]