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Podcast: The Conscription Crisis of 1918

John Dorney is joined by Daragh Fitzgerald and Spencer Jones to discuss the attempt by the British government to impose conscription on Ireland in April 1918. The mass mobilisation against conscription prefigued the victory of Sinn Fein in the election of that year We discuss: The British professional army tradition …

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Before the United Irishmen: Wolfe Tone’s Plan for a British Military Colony in Hawaii

How the father of Irish republicanism once lobbied for a new British colony. By Peter Irvine  Three years before helping to establish …

The Lurgan Weavers’ strike of 1913

By Barry Sheppard The town of Lurgan, County Armagh, has in recent decades developed a harsh reputation for political and sectarian violence. …

George’s Quay and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay: Crossing the Point of No Return. 

By Ray Esten This article endeavours to reveal George’s Quay and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay as the final point of departure for …

The Proclamation Of The Irish Republic, 1916

Podcast, The Fenians, Part Three

First broadcast on the Irish History Show. John Dorney and Cathal Brennan discuss the Fenian movement, part 3 out of 4. Part …

Saving Cork’s Historic Prison

By Dee Moore and Eolan Ryng They say history repeats itself. In the 1920s and 1930s, the newly established government of Ireland …

Quayside Worlds: Aston, George’s, and Rogerson’s Quay and the Georgian City of Dublin

By Ray Esten  In the early eighteenth century, Dublin was on the brink of rapid growth, which gathered pace under George II …

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The Civil War in Dublin

Peace After The Final Battle

Great Irish History Sites

  • County Wexford History Sources
  • Enniskerry Local History
  • History Ireland
  • Irish Labour and Working Class History
  • Pue's Occurrences
  • QUB's Irish History Live
  • The British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-1660
  • The Irish History Podcast
  • UCC Multitext Project
  • War Of Independence

Irish History Forums

  • Boards.ie History forum
  • Political World Irish History Forum
  • Politics.ie History Forum

Irish History Publishers

  • Collins Press
  • Flyleaf Press
  • Four Courts Press
  • Geography Publications
  • Gill & Macmillan
  • Irish Academic Press
  • Mercier Press
  • New Island
  • O'Brien Press
  • The History Press Ireland
  • UCD Press

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