Attitude of State to nationhood only adds to great divide
The people of Ireland do not constitute an Irish nation today, any more than they did in 1916, writes Dennis Kennedy
April 11th, 1918
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The initial success of the German offensive in spring 1918 panicked the British government into announcing…
JUNE 15th, 1918: Anti-conscription pledge is enforced by use of boycott
FROM THE ARCHIVES: In 1918, the last year of the first World War and the year before the War of Independence began, conscription…
A rebel who found his cause
BIOGRAPHY: Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary, By Seamus O'Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656pp
Sacrifice of Irish men who fought in first World War recalled
THE FIRST World War represents the worst Irish death toll from a single event since the Famine, making it imperative that its…
Republican revolutionaries 'followed Carson's example'
THE ULSTER unionist campaign against the 1912 Home Rule Bill led by Lord Edward Carson served the interests of violent republicanism…
September 1st, 1916: From The Archives:
The success of nationalist politicians, especially the East Mayo MP John Dillon, in preventing the British government from introducing…
November 26th, 1912: Home Rule Bill 'a delusion and a cheat'
BACK PAGES: In 1912 the Home Rule Bill was going through the House of Commons in London, teasing out the details of the proposal…
Volunteers divided over response to war
September 1st 1914. THE START of the first World War in August 1914 exposed deep divisions among nationalists, not least among…
APRIL 24th, 1916: 'Our foolish young men play at soldiers'
READERS OF The Irish Times on Easter Monday in 1916, April 24th that year, would have had no inkling of the historical change…
The forging of the green
History: Richard English has followed up his award-winning Armed Struggle: the History of the IRA with another survey of a vast…
The Catholics of Ulster by Marianne Elliott (Penguin, £9.99 in UK)
Those whose notions of the Irish past have been gleaned from ballad, song and An Phoblacht, those for whom "revisionism" is just…
Learned and loony, bitter and blissful
One of the joyful results of writing any book on Irish history is that it puts one in touch with a cross-section of the learned…
A long way from Rome
`Comfortable recollections of Catholics and Dissenters fighting side by side for liberty in 1798 have been severely corroded …
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