‘Pensions for nothing?’—the case of Patrick James Doherty

While some applicants may have exaggerated their service, a system of checks and balances allowed statements to be verified and tested. BY ROBERT MCEVOY ‘Doherty:  If I could get a […]

The Boyd Barretts and the new Irish state

Privilege and change in the Catholic middle class. BY COLUM KENNY One was a controversial Jesuit psychologist who left the priesthood and married but later recanted. One was a surgeon […]

KINDRED LINES: Manifests of alien passengers

BY FIONA FITZSIMONS In the nineteenth century, immigration changed the demographics of the United States and saw the establishment of significant immigrant communities of Irish, Germans, Chinese, Italians and Eastern […]

The Royal Navy in the War of Independence

The IRA attack on Fenit coastguard station and RIC barracks in June 1920. BY DAIRE BRUNICARDI In most of the many accounts and histories of the Irish War of Independence […]

Britain’s ‘disappeared’

The British still seem intent on burying evidence of the grim deeds done in defence of their empire. BY PÁDRAIG ÓG Ó RUAIRC Four months after the signing of the […]