Really excited to share this front cover draft of my latest book (co-written with Alan Tate) due out in November on Lemon's Pure Sweets. Lemon's used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images.

On this week's The Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss people being intimidated and displaced during the Troubles, the history of Irish Senates (North and South) and the mysterious kidnapping of the heiress Patty Hearst. youtu.be/CKN5v-L12kY?...

With prominent GAA figure Jim Gavin being the Fianna Fáil candidate for Irish president, in today’s Irish News I look back on when relations between Fianna Fáil and the GAA were strained after Douglas Hyde was removed as GAA patron, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...

In the latest episode of The Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss the 1975 split within Ulster Unionism, ways British/NI firms avoided paying customs in the Free State, and incendiary language by the British Press over the Boundary Commission. youtu.be/E3vqQw-ThYQ?...

In this week's episode of The Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss how Northern Ireland was always treated differently to Britain in relation to trade and customs forms since the partition of Ireland, long before it became a hot Brexit topic. youtu.be/lLtuTWJK7WQ?...

Today’s Irish News article assessing whether the ‘Feetham-Cheat’em’ nationalist jibe against the Irish Boundary Commission chairperson Richard Feetham is fair or not. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...

On this week's The Irish History Boys podcast, Tim McGarry and I discuss the long and often controversial life of Éamon de Valera, a titan of Irish political life, who died 50 years ago on 29 August 1975. youtu.be/ka0_fTBP4Ag?...

In this week’s episode of The Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss the evils of modern and foreign dancing as viewed by the Catholic Church in the 1920s and 1930s. youtu.be/g3x2XSBvBtk?...

Today’s Irish News article on the legacy of Éamon de Valera, 50 years after his death, www.irishnews.com/opinion/what...

In this week's episode of The Irish History Boys, Tim McGarry and I discuss the legacy of the Liberator Daniel O'Connell 250 years after his birth, and the stillborn Council of Ireland, jettisoned after the collapse of the Boundary Commission in Dec 1925. youtu.be/9BGkl4eNQw0?...

Volume 8 of History on Your Doorstep is now available free at Dublin City Libraries, and can also be downloaded here, www.dublincity.ie/sites/defaul.... My essay is on the “Sinn Féin rabbi”, Yitzhak Herzog, the first chief rabbi of the Irish Free State and subsequently of Israel.

The latest The Irish History Boys podcast with Tim McGarry and I, available to listen to/watch now. We discuss the 1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty: Freedom or Betrayal? youtu.be/MnOzy7LSsaQ?...

Enjoyed speaking to ⁦‪Hugh Linehan about my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission on the Irish Times Inside Politics podcast‬⁩. You can listen to our conversation here. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

As part of Féile Derry 2025, I will be discussing my new book, The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission with former editor of the Derry Journal Pat McArt, tomorrow, 8th August at 1pm at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin. feilederry.com/event/did-ye...

Today’s article in the Irish News on the 250th anniversary of Daniel O’Connell’s birth, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...

As part of Féile an Phobail, I will be giving a talk on the Irish Boundary Commission, based on my recently published book, The Root of All Evil, this Thursday, 7th August at 1pm in St Mary's University College Belfast.