Understanding violence against women in the Irish Revolution – a global context
In 2013, the Irish State launched a decade of remembering the turning points in a “revolution” that led to...
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The Vatican and the Irish revolution, 1914-1923
Despite its transnationality, the Catholic Church was not a worldwide monolithic bloc and the Vatican would bitterly experience this during...
Read moreThe Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies
On 27 August 1920, the RIC’s in-house propaganda freesheet, the Weekly Summary, warned that the newly-recruited Black and Tans (who...
Read moreDe Valera's Rhetoric in the American South
“From the Potomac to the Gulf, huge crowds have been fired with enthusiasm for the New Ireland by the...
Read moreÉamon de Valera and the 1920 American presidential campaign
Éamon de Valera, president of Dáil Eireann, was in the US from June 1919 to December 1920 to secure...
Read morePatriotic women and the emotional politics of empire: Ireland and Australia, 1916-1920
At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, nationalist aspirations reshaped relations between many of the...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Hugh Mahon
On 25 October 1920 Terence MacSwiney, the Sinn Féin mayor of Cork, died in Brixton prison after 74 days on hunger...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Tom Glynn
Galway-born Tom Glynn was a prominent labour activist, ideologue and journalist in South Africa and Australia, initially advocating an American...
Read moreCirculating Sydney - Propaganda & the Self-Determination League for Ireland of Australia, 1921-22
In studies of the global Irish revolution, the establishment of a series of Self-Determination for Ireland Leagues in the dominions...
Read moreThe Self-Determination for Ireland League of Canada and Newfoundland
Between 1920 and 1922, a formidable network of Irish nationalists emerged in British North America: the Self-Determination for Ireland League of Canada...
Read moreProtestant unionist masculinities & the Orange Order in Canada
From its beginnings in Ireland in 1795, the Orange Order centred its beliefs on the supremacy of the Protestant faith and...
Read moreCanada’s Irish Catholics, the Great War, and the Irish Question
It is difficult to pin down a singular position by Irish Canadian Catholics in their response to events unfolding in...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Daniel McAuliffe
On 3 January 1920, Éamon de Valera arrived in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, to a raucous reception from over 3,000 supporters....
Read moreGlobal Lives: Dr William J. Maloney
In Dr William J. M. A. Maloney’s own words, he was ‘a nobody in the Irish movement...
Read moreBest of 2019 - Five extraordinary Irish men and women from the revolutionary era
Margaret Cousins by Dr Jyoti Atwal Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gretta Gillespie; 1878-1954) was born in Boyle, Co....
Read moreBest of 2019 - Five articles that show the global reach of the Irish Revolution
Why Irish revolutionaries had to go global by Dr Brian Hanley Addressing the House of Commons in December 1921, Winston Churchill...
Read moreIntroducing the Global Irish Revolution
To what extent do revolutionary developments outside Ireland shape what happens in Ireland? And in what ways do events in...
Read moreAmerican political culture, Ireland and the League of Nations
When the United States Senate failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles on 19 November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered much more...
Read moreIreland’s Pacific World 1916–1923
Political developments in Ireland during the period from 1916 to 1923 produced seismic tremors across the Pacific World. Most Irish communities in...
Read moreIreland and the assassination culture of imperial Britain
In 1909, the then Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, laid out what became, for the next seven decades, the British imperial...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Margaret Cousins
Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gretta Gillespie; 1878-1954) was born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon in western Ireland. She was...
Read moreDemocratic revolution in Ireland & the interwar world
In the summer of 1923, an English young writer called Graham Greene visited Dublin on his first reporting trip abroad and...
Read moreRevolutionary Ireland & empire loyalty in Irish-Australia 1916-1921
World War One presented unparalleled challenges in relation to Australia’s membership of Britain’s Empire. The demand...
Read moreLabour Radicalism & Irish Revolution in Australia
In October 1920, two political radicals who rose to prominence out of the Australian anti-conscription movement attended the mass funeral of...
Read moreA New York state of mind: Éamon de Valera in Ireland’s global city
‘It is a privileged honor, personal as well as official, to greet most cordially in the person of É...
Read moreThe Dublin Metropolitan Police & the colonial legacies of Irish policing
The Irish Revolution (1916 -1923) precipitated the emigration of many members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary,...
Read moreIreland’s Comintern Generation
In March 1919, the Third International, more commonly known as the Communist International or Comintern, was founded in Moscow. An organisation...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Leopold Kerney
The importance of Leopold Kerney has only recently begun to be appreciated by historians of the revolutionary period, who realise...
Read moreExplainer: The Paris Peace Conference
What was the Paris Peace Conference? The Paris Peace Conference (also the Versailles Peace Conference) was an international summit of...
Read moreThe First World War and the Irish Revolution in Dublin – linked ‘Great Wars’
That Soloheadbeg and Dáil Éireann’s first meeting at the Mansion House took place on the...
Read moreThe Friends of Irish Freedom & the Irish Race Convention
On 22 February 1919, the Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF) organisation held a two day Irish Race Convention in Philadelphia. The FOIF...
Read moreWATCH: Domestic & Dangerous – Irish women during the war of independence
Historian Dr Margaret Ward, QUB, talks to RTÉ’s Bryan Dobson about the various roles that women played...
Read moreWATCH: Centenary Commemoration of the Soloheadbeg Ambush
Donal Byrne reports for RTÉ News on a ceremony held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soloheadbeg ambush,...
Read moreA global mandate: Ireland’s international struggle for self-determination
The general election of December 1918 was arguably the most significant in modern Irish history. Securing a popular mandate for Sinn...
Read moreIrish independence & Central European small nations, 1918-1923
In the early 20th century, the struggle of oppressed small nations for self-determination was shared by Ireland and the subordinated...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Patrick McCartan
Dr. Patrick McCartan was recruited into Irish revolutionary politics as a young emigrant in the United States. He became intimately...
Read moreFunding the new Republic: the External Dáil Loan
As historian David Fitzpatrick has argued, ‘Ireland’s revolution was moulded, in its priorities and funding, by emigration...
Read moreLISTEN: The First Dáil & the Soloheadbeg Ambush
On the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of Dáil Éireann, Myles Dungan, presenter of RTÉ...
Read moreGlobal Lives: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington ‘always looked out for the forward part of the women’s movement’ when visiting...
Read moreWhy Irish revolutionaries had to go global
Addressing the House of Commons in December 1921, Winston Churchill wondered where, what he called the ‘mysterious power’ of...
Read moreRevolutionary diplomats: The Dáil Éireann foreign service, 1919-1922
On 22 February 1919, Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh wrote a letter to French premier Georges Clemenceau from the Grand Hotel in Paris. ...
Read moreExplainer: The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil
What was it? The Democratic Programme was one of three major documents endorsed at the meeting of the First D...
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The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.