CURRENT ISSUE:  OCTOBER 2023

Illuminations: The Siege of Pensacola

Illuminations: The Siege of Pensacola By:  J. Michael Finn The Regimiento Hibernia (Hibernia Regiment) was one of the Spanish army’s foreign regiments.  Known in Spain as “O’Neill’s Regiment,” it was […]

Illuminations: The Crash at Truskmore Mountain

Illuminations:  The Crash at Truskmore Mountain By: J. Michael Finn As this column has previously noted, Taioseach of Éire (pron: tee-shock), Eamon de Valera maintained a curious kind of neutrality […]

Illuminations: The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Ireland

Illuminations:  The 1918 Flu Epidemic in Ireland By:  J. Michael Finn The 1918-19 influenza pandemic killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide. Known as the “Spanish Flu,” it infected at […]

Illuminations: Erskine Childers

Illuminations:  Erskine Childers By:  J. Michael Finn Robert Erskine Childers was born in Mayfair, London, England on June 25, 1870. He was the second son of Robert Childers, an oriental […]

The 1914 Buckingham Palace Conference: Illuminations

Illuminations:  The 1914 Buckingham Palace Conference By:  J. Michael Finn “… a matter which to English eyes seems inconceivably small and to Irish eyes immeasurably big.” The year 1914 was a […]

Illuminations: Roddy McCorley Goes to Die

  Illuminations:  Roddy McCorley By:  J. Michael Finn “There was never a one of all your dead, more bravely fell in fray Than he who marches to his fate on […]