What? The Battle of Gallipoli. Also known as? The Dardanelles Campaign Where? I suppose you’re going to say “Gallipoli” aren’t you? Yes — the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now Turkey, which forms the nothern bank of the Dardanelles Strait,…
Loyalist paramilitaries:
An overview
In the Troubles loyalists killed 990 people; 708 simply because they were Catholics.1 The question is “Why?” Main Groupings The two most important and longest-established loyalist terrorist groups are: Ulster Volunteer Force founded in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the…
The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham:
A Review
My attention was first called to Ulster-born writer George A. Birmingham by a review of his novel The Major’s Candlesticks on the Reading 1900–1950 blog. That novel is a comedy set in the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence…
A Short History of Ireland in Spanish and Portuguese:
"Uma História Resumida Da Irlanda/Historia Resumida De Irlanda"
Exciting news: IHC’s e-book guide to Irish history has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, with an Italian translation in progress. As well as Amazon, all the usual retailers are stocking it: Apple, Google Play, Scribd, Kobo and so on,…
Irish History Compressed’s most popular posts in 2014
These are the posts that got the most views in 2014: History Carnival 131 (March 2014) Book Review: Fatal Path by Ronan Fanning (June 2014) Significant Commas in Irish History (February 2014) “Scots should recall the poverty of the Irish…
State papers: Dublin’s fear of civil war and Provos bankrolled by Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi:
from BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
There wasn’t as much coverage of the revelations contained in declassified government papers this year as there was last year – surprising as they deal with the period of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. There are a few little gems nonetheless, such…