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Charles McCarthy of Cork joined the French Irish Brigade but defected to British after French revolution. He served as British governor of their West African colony and died in 1824 in battle against the Ashanti. His head was made into a ceremonial drinking cup www.theirishstory.com/2024/02/29/s...
Book Review: Bloody Summer, A New History of the 1798 Rebellion: A fair minded concise but comprehensive look at the evetns of 1798 in Ireland. By James Quinn.
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Podcast: the Penal Laws Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the anti-Catholic legislation that defined Irish life from the 1600s up to the 1800s. www.theirishstory.com/2026/06/06/p...
New, interesting (we hope!) episode on the anti-catholic legislation that dominated irish political life from the 1600s to the 1800s, known as the Penal Laws. Enjoy! irishhistoryshow.ie/115-the-pena...
Ambushes in the Irish War of Independence: Myth and Reality.The IRA ambush became the distinctive motif of the War of Independence, but this vision is somewhat at odds with the reality, as this article discusses theirishstory.com/2021/03/04/a...
The 1798 Rebellion was one of the bloodiest events in Irish history. Thousands of people were slaughtered in a single summer in a massive popular uprising against British rule. Thousands more were ser...
On this episode of the Irish History Show we discussed the Penal Laws in Ireland. The Penal Laws were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries on the…
