A talk I gave for Terence MacSwiney, Cork Men’s Gaol, and the Political Hunger Strike, 1920-2020 Conference   ‘Tell my people I want to be buried with Fitzgerald of Fermoy’: The impact of Michael Fitzgerald’s martyrdom on Liam Lynch (starts at approx 58mins in).…

An online talk I gave for Áras Uí Chonghaile in October 2021 about Michael Fitzgerald, Cork IRA leader.   Michael Fitzgerald, the Cork IRA leader, who was the first republican to die on hunger striker during the Tan War in October 1920. His death was eclipsed by that of Terence…

An online talk I gave for Trasna na Tíre in May 2021 about Michael Fitzgerald, Cork IRA leader. ‘This is a fight to the finish’: The life and death of Michael Fitzgerald, Cork IRA leader Not only the first republican hunger striker to die during the War of Independence, Michael…

I wrote this article which was originally published online by The Irish Times on Saturday, 17 October 2020. That date marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Michael Fitzgerald, the first republican to die during the Irish War of Independence. See the link to the original article here. I also discussed…