Oliver O'Hanlon

I have just written a piece about a plain walking stick that was once owned by Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). In fact it was made by h...

On 11 December 1920, five acres of property was destroyed in Cork City, Ireland. In a reprisal attack, members of the British Crown forces s...

The Irish War of Independence, which lasted from January 1919 to July 1921, consumed gallons of newspaper ink in newspapers all around the w...

Bernard O'Dowd (1866-1953) was known as Australia's first national poet. He was born in Beauford, Victoria to Ulster-born Catholic p...

News of the Irish War of Independence (January 1919-July 1921) was covered extensively in much of the French press. Today marks 100 years si...

'Croke Park, dimanche sanglante à Dublin' [Croke Park, Blood Sunday in Dublin] is the title of a new French graphic novel. It tells ...

I have already written on this blog about how Terence MacSwiney's hunger strike and death were reported in the French press. See previou...