The Kilmichael ambush and the outer limits of Irish historical revisionism

In this the centenary year of the Kilmichael ambush it is perhaps timely to reflect on Peter Hart’s reinterpretation and how he arrived at his conclusions. By John Regan Twenty-two […]

The curious case of the ‘Sinn Féin typhoid plot’

One of many examples of black propaganda by the press officials in Dublin Castle? Or has it a basis in truth? By Michael B. Barry As the War of Independence […]

‘Every man is exactly what he makes himself’

Who was Tony Small, friend and manservant of Lord Edward Fitzgerald? And what became of him and his family after Fitzgerald’s death in 1798? By Laura McKenna The Battle of […]

KINDRED LINES

Tracing Black, Asian, Minority-Ethnic (BAME) and mixed-race people in Ireland c. 1700–1922, part I By Fiona Fitzsimons From at least the eighteenth century there were BAME people in Ireland and […]

Life downstairs in Newbridge House

What the recently refurbished basement rooms of Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, reveal about servants’ lives in one of Ireland’s ‘big houses’. By Cathal Dowd Smith A country house can be […]