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 the Welland Canal in Canada, an important shipping lane at the time for Britain, then embroiled in the Boer War. There was little in ‘Dynamite’ … 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 all users through a new website at www.dib.ie. The DIB marked its move to open access by publishing a number of high-profile new entries online, … 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 the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, under whose terms Northern Ireland formally ‘opted out’ of the Irish Free State a year later, followed by the … 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 rural crossroads of Crossbarry, Co. Cork, about 20km south-west of Cork city. The IRA escaped a major British attempt to surround them. During the hour-long … 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 Michael D. Higgins has launched a series of in-depth seminars relating to the foundation of the Irish state. The first took place online in December … Read more