‘We English protest’—Margaret Buckmaster’s peace crusade

By Eugene Dunphy By late 1920, liberal-minded English men and women had grown weary of hearing daily reports from Ireland about the thuggish behaviour of the Black and Tans and […]

The rebel priests of Mullagh—Fr Pat Gaynor, Fr Michael McKenna and the War of Independence

By Áine Hensey In Freedom and the Fifth Commandment: Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1920–21, Brian Heffernan describes the considerable diversity of opinion that existed among Irish Catholic […]

The Fenian plot to kill the future King George V

By Dean Jobb They wore workmen’s clothing, making them indistinguishable from the thousands of Irish newcomers in search of jobs in Nova Scotia’s mines or building its railways. James Holmes, […]

Mapping for wheels—maps for Ireland’s first cycling revolution, 1880–1920

By Arnold Horner Between the 1880s and the early years of the twentieth century, in one of the least politically charged transformations of the period, Ireland’s first cycling revolution brought, […]

‘Deaf Liberator’—the life and times of Francis Maginn, 1861–1918

By Noel O’Connell Francis Maginn was the foremost pioneer of the deaf community in Ireland and Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No one enjoyed such prominence, […]