John Dorney of the Irish Story will be giving free tours of Griffith College tonight for Culture Night. the complex was formery Griffith Barracks and before that Richmond Bridewell (prison).

The Spanish Armada: Myths and Misconceptions theirishstory.com/2024/09/12/the…

Brian Hanley tells the story of a man with a most unusual career: David Tormey: IRA Volunteer, Garda, Nazi. Irish rebel, policman, possible informer, pro Franco soldier in Spain and finally Nazi sympathiser theirishstory.com/2024/11/16/dav…

#OTD in 1922 dark days in the Irish Civil War. The Dail passed a resolution giving the Army powers to execute prisoners after a summary miltiary trial. (Pic is of cabinet members at M.Collins funeral) theirishstory.com/2013/09/27/tod…

Attorney General versus Tom Barry: The Curious Tale of Tom and the Tommy Gun, by Aaron O Maonaigh theirishstory.com/2025/04/07/att…

Discussion here of the Desmond Rebellions in 1570s and 80 in Munster, that destroyed the Geraldine dynasty and paved way for the subsquent Munster plantation. With TheIrishHistoryShow theirishstory.com/2023/12/04/pod…

This is an interesting post about the Treaty of Windsor, 1172, between King of England and last High King of Ireland. Article here that goes into the Treaty, one of many broken both in letter and in spirit in Irish history theirishstory.com/2021/12/06/tre…

#otd Today in Irish History, The Repeal Meeting at Clontarf is Banned, 8 October 1843. The mass meeting at Clontarf for the restoration of Irish self govt was banned the night before it was due to take place and frantically called off by Daniel O’Connell.

It was essentially the of Repeal movement. O'Connell himself was thrown in jail for three months for 'an attempt to break up the Bitish Empre.' Article on all this here theirishstory.com/2011/10/08/tod…

Revisiting the Red Cow Murders, October 7, 1922. Three young anti-Treatyites were arrested outting up posters in Drumcondra, Dublin taken to Wellington Barracks and later found shot dead and dumped at the Red Cow, outside the city. theirishstory.com/2017/11/22/rev…

Sorry to hear this. We interviewed Ed once on Ian Paisley, on whom he'd written a biography. theirishstory.com/2021/11/13/pod…

Very sorry to hear about about the death of Irish journalist Ed Moloney this morning. He was a guest on the show where he talked about his biography of Ian Paisley. irishhistoryshow.ie/85-ian-paisley/

#OTD 1641, a plan by Ulster Catholic gentry to seize Dublin Castle & various other strongpoints around Ireland misfires. Attacks on Protestant settlers break out, leading to large scale killings. It is the begining of a fateful decade in Irish history. theirishstory.com/2010/10/23/tod…

For an overivew of the following, catastrophic, decade see here: theirishstory.com/2014/01/10/the…

Thrilled to announce the official launch of our new book on the Civil War in Kerry and Beyond which is based on the papers presented at the Kerry Civil War Conference in 2023 📅 Friday 21st November ⏲️ 6.00pm 🏛️ Kerry County Museum Fáilte roimh chách 📚 shorturl.at/m5yMF

The Siege of Tralee, November 1 – 9, 1920. The RIC and ‘Black and Tans’ brought Tralee close to starvation in an effort to force the IRA to release two missing policemen – they were in fact already dead theirishstory.com/2012/11/06/the…

Over 200,000 Irishmen served in WWI and somewhere between 30 and 50,000 died in it. The was also helped to end British rule in most of Ireland though, as a result of the conscription crisis of 1918. An overview of Ireland's experience of war here theirishstory.com/2018/11/09/ire…

Read also, Jason Myers consideration of Irish cautalties in the war. theirishstory.com/2015/03/25/rec…

New documentary review by Brian Hanley of the RTÉ documentary on Irish Northern Aid (Noraid), the IRA and the Troubles branno TheIrishHistoryShow Dirty War in Dublin theirishstory.com/2025/11/10/doc…

Launch tonight at Book Upstairs, D'Olier St, Dublin, at 6.30.