Person: Laurence Fenton

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Festival for Cork native known as the ‘most dangerous woman in America’

Cork historian Dr Sean Pettit will guest at the 2016 Spirit of Mother Jones festival and summer school.

Mon, 30 May, 2016

The great abolitionist Douglass and Cork’s Apostle of Temperance

Escaped slave Frederick Douglass was made welcome in Cork, but he later fell out with our own Apostle of Temperance, writes Laurence Fenton

Fri, 28 Feb, 2014

The cabbage plot rebels

The Young Ireland Rebellion and Limerick

Sat, 21 Aug, 2010

Where were we then? We were in our prams

THE February 15 march, and the number of septuagenarian protesters outside the Dail last Thursday, showed that the Irish campaign against the war on Iraq ranges across the age spectrum.

Wed, 26 Mar, 2003

Our war policy?

Your guess as good as mine

Mon, 17 Mar, 2003