Irish History

Resisting Populism

Actor, journalist, Fenian activist, historian, victim of police brutality, and, latterly, lawyer and lobbyist Gus Costello wrote with sympathy of the plight of African Americans…

Irish History

Making a History of the Homeplace

An extract from ‘The End of Outrage’, an intimate history of a small southwest Donegal community around the time of the Famine which focuses not…

Irish History

‘Them Poor Irish Lads’ in Pennsylvania

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in America was a time of great confrontation between workers and bosses over wages, working conditions and unionisation.…

Irish Art / Culture

No Partition, No Planning, No Poverty

Some old familiars are to be encountered in a historical geography of Donegal, but it is more surprising what is not encountered.

The Lion and the Haunted House

Derryman Alec Foster was a great rugby player, a noted traditional singer and a highly regarded teacher, a left-wing republican and a founding member of…

A Jig in the Poorhouse

A quarter of a century ago it was stated that no serious academic historian takes seriously any more the claim of genocide in relation to…