Lorcan Collins

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Seán Hogan’s #2 flying column, Third Tipperary Brigade, during the War of Independence.
Flying columns: The elite guard of the old IRA

Organisation Memo No 1 (1920) was issued by Óglaigh na hÉireann (IRA) General Headquarters (GHQ) on October 4th, 1920. It concerned the formation of f(...)

Prof Colin Harvey is one of more than 1,000 signatures on an open letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Photograph: Laura Davison/Pacemaker Press
Open letter began with ‘recurring theme’ around denial of rights in North

In 2017, Niall Murphy found himself having the same conversation over and over again. There was a “recurring theme” around the denial of rights in t(...)

Circa 1935: Eoin O'Duffy at a rally of his Blueshirts. To his right is Alfred Byrne, the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Photograph: Hutton Archive/Getty
Monaghan, 1920: Deadly raid brought Eoin O’Duffy to prominence

The Revolution Files is a collection of articles detailing one incident in each of Ireland’s 32 counties during the revolutionary years, from 1916 to (...)

Onlookers cheer as a cat clinging to a lifebuoy is pulled out of the river Liffey by a passerby at Grattan bridge in Dublin city centre. Photograph: Lorcan Collins/@1916walkingtour
Ya gotta be kitten? Cat pulled alive from Liffey by passersby

The man who captured the viral video of a cat being rescued from the river Liffey in Dublin last week said the act was a “very fine example of humans (...)

Members of Southall Shamrocks, a multi-racial GAA team from London, with their teachers outside the GPO in Dublin yesterday, where they took the 1916 tour. Photograph: Dave Meehan
London GAA teenagers get taste of Irish history

In Dublin’s GPO yesterday evening it was a history lesson like few others for the group of London teenagers. “There wer(...)