BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 26/1900 Luke Dillon, a leading light in the Fenian dynamite campaign (1881–5), was sentenced to life imprisonment along with two others for attempting to bomb […]
Read More →www.dib.ie By Terry Clavin In March 2021, the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) moved to an ‘open-access’ model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries freely available to […]
Read More →June 22nd is the centenary of the opening by King George V of the Northern Ireland parliament—perhaps the most symbolic of the successive steps that copper-fastened partition (the next was […]
Read More →By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Crossbarry ambush occurred on 19 March 1921 and was one of the largest engagements of the War of Independence. It took place at the […]
Read More →https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn3EIhQYKNk Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is Professor Emeritus at Dublin City University and author of The enigma of Arthur Griffith: ‘Father of Us All’ (Merrion Press, 2020). President […]
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