‘Narrow nationalists’ fought for our freedom
One of the key debates during the early decades of the Irish state after the 1921 Treaty was how to establish the foundations of an independent economic and financial system. Here, Peter Ryan who has written about some of the debates within the revolutionary leadership, discusses how the first Cumann na nGaedhael government more or […]
My grandmother, Esther Hannon, had two heroes other than Mattie my namesake granddad who was from Tipperary and whose own history remains a mystery. We are not closely related to the most famous Treacy who was from the football part of the county. She was a Dub going back generations, although her own mother, a […]