This article will provide a chronological account of the most audacious assassination attempt in seventeenth century Britain, the attempt on the life of the First Duke Ormonde, James Butler.
This article will focus on the role of Archbishop Daniel Mannix in the Anglo-Irish truce negotiations of December 1920.
This article discusses the evacuation of Kilmainham Gaol in 1910.
What if Kilmainham Gaol would suddenly vanish from the public’s gaze and lose face during our country’s most defining moments? This article will attempt to answer these questions by discussing how Kilmainham Gaol in fact looked destined to unfulfill its role as the Bastille of Irish prisons due to its evacuation in 1910.
And I say to my people’s masters: Beware
Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people
Who shall take what ye would not give.
This article will discuss the events of the siege of Kilkenny Castle in May 1922. By analysing contemporary newspaper accounts, official documentation and archival sources from the period. It will demonstrate how this turbulent week impacted on the already diverse narrative of Kilkenny Castle.
