As mentioned here, my review of An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland, by Linden MacIntyre, appeared in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 9 (1) in April 2026. Here’s the link: https://doi.org/10.32803/rise.v9i1.3448. The…
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Book review: An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland – Linden MacIntyre
This is just a quick post to say that my review of An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland, by Linden MacIntyre, has just been published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 9…
Scenes of old Ireland from ‘The Two Hemispheres’
The Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Still in existence (and open to visitors!) today. Illustration from The Two Hemispheres by George Goudie Chisolm, 1885.
The book The Two Hemispheres: a popular account of the countries and peoples of the world … Illustrated, etc. (1885) covers, as its title suggests, the whole world. Scans of its illustrations were among the thousands recently uploaded to Flickr by the British Library. I’ve extracted and added to the Irish History Compressed Pinterest account the ones of sights in Ireland.
The Rathmines Church Fire, 1920 – Come here to me!
In one of those funny coincidences, I had only reposted this picture on Pinterest yesterday, to then find an entry on the same subject on the Come here to me Dublin blog, quoting from and apparently questioning the Sunday Times…
The Loyal Dublin Volunteers: a forgotten organisation
History always brings up surprises. I’d never heard of this before. At its peak the LDV boasted a membership of some 2000 men. Many were of Ulster birth, some 768 men and women signed the Ulster Covenant and Declaration within…
Irish History Compressed on Pinterest
We’re on Pinterest now, under the url http://pinterest.com/irishhistory (“irishhistorycompressed” being – according to the website – too long for a name. This is the same problem as Twitter has, which partly explains the lack of an Irish History Compressed Twitter…
The Bombardment of the Four Courts and the beginning of the Irish Civil War, 28 June 1922
On this day ninety years ago, the newly formed army of the Irish Free State opened cannon fire upon the Four Courts, a large neoclassical building dominating the quayside in central Dublin. Their aim? To dislodge former colleagues from the…