Donal Ó Drisceoil

UCC

Donal Ó Drisceoil is a Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork and an editor of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (Cork, 2017). His most recent book is Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution (Cork, 2021).

An Irish railway newsstand in the 1920s.

War of words: censorship and propaganda during the Civil War

The Civil War was fought not only in the streets and townlands of Ireland, but also in the pages of newspapers and pamphlets, as Donal …

History • 18 Aug

A cartoon from the Freeman's Journal attacking de Valera. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Press, Propaganda and the Treaty split

In 1922, the Irish media overwhelmingly supported the Treaty. What effect did that have on the Civil War? Donal Ó Drisceoil explains.

History • 15 Jun

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