April 11th, 1918

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The initial success of the German offensive in spring 1918 panicked the British government into announcing…


A rebel who found his cause

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The success of nationalist politicians, especially the East Mayo MP John Dillon, in preventing the British government from introducing…



The forging of the green

History: Richard English has followed up his award-winning Armed Struggle: the History of the IRA with another survey of a vast…


Learned and loony, bitter and blissful

One of the joyful results of writing any book on Irish history is that it puts one in touch with a cross-section of the learned…


A long way from Rome

`Comfortable recollections of Catholics and Dissenters fighting side by side for liberty in 1798 have been severely corroded …




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