Nick Maxwell Amongst those killed and injured were a great many of the city’s Irish workers and their families. By Mairtín Ó Catháin This year marks the 200th anniversary of the infamous attack by government forces on a mass gathering of parliamentary reformers in St Peter’s Fields in Manchester, in which an estimated seventeen people were killed … Read more
JULY 03 Wed 6.30pm Inchicore Library, Emmet Road, Inchicore. The Black and Tans to the Treaty. inchicorelibrary@dublincity 04 Thur 1pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Guided tour of the Yeats exhibition. 04 Thur 7pm Irish Archaeology Field School, Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford. Before the Normans—the archaeology of early medieval Wexford, Ian Doyle. … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr. In August 1919 Cathal Brugha, as the Minister for Defence, took measures to bind the IRA to the Dáil. Initially, the Irish Volunteers were answerable to no authority except their own executive. On 20 August Brugha moved that every Dáil representative and Volunteer should swear an oath of allegiance ‘to … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190521-HistoryIrelandShow-105.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Recorded @ Edinburgh University, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Wednesday 15 May 2019 To what extent did revolutionary developments abroad shape what happened within Ireland during the revolutionary period 1919–23? And in what ways did events within … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Following the Soloheadbeg ambush on 21 January 1919, Séamus Robinson, Seán Treacy, Seán Hogan and Dan Breen went on the run. The group who took part in the ambush became known as ‘the Big Four’, for whom the British offered a reward of £10,000. On 11 May 1919 Hogan was … Read more