By Angeline O’Neill The story of The Wild Goose, the Catalpa and The Pilot is the story of Irishman John Boyle O’Reilly, a Fenian convict who became one of the most powerful journalists in the United States in the nineteenth century. His writing ranged from the production of a handwritten newspaper, The Wild Goose, by … Read more
An Cailín Ciuín (2022), That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023) and Small Things Like These (2024) By Seán Patrick Donlan Whatever else life brought in the early 1980s, there were a number of new and ongoing challenges for the Irish state and society. There appeared no end to widespread unemployment and mass emigration. … Read more
By Jack Hepworth To many outside observers, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) might have appeared in robust health in the 1950s. At the élite level of hurling and Gaelic football alike, the All-Ireland championships attracted enormous interest. On 27 September 1953, 86,000 spectators packed into Croke Park to watch Kerry overturn a half-time deficit and … Read more
By Cormac Moore The Irish Boundary Commission, which was provided for under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, collapsed almost four years later, in late 1925, without any changes having been made to the border. The fallout still resonates deeply today. UNIONISTS FAVOURED OVER NATIONALISTS Following the formal interviews of almost 600 people from March to July … Read more
By Ivan Gibbons On 18 December 1924 the Fermanagh Impartial Reporter and Farmers’ Journal reported that ‘The Members [of the Boundary Commission] during the morning journeyed to Garrison through Derrygonnelly, over Knockmore mountain. The effort called for some athletic prowess, and Mr Fisher [Northern Ireland Commissioner] was forced to abandon the enterprise when about half-way … Read more