It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...

‘No Middle Path: the Civil War in Kerry’ offers an engrossing account of some of the darkest days in Irish history Historian and Author Owen O'Shea with his latest book 'No Middle ...

He writes a weekly opinion column. His books include Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War; The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics; A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish ...