Cormac Moore
@cormacmoorehist.bsky.social
Historian with Dublin City Council. New book out, The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission. Columnist and editor of 'On this Day' with The Irish News.
Today’s Irish News article on the tripartite negotiations which began this day 100 years ago in London that left the border in Ireland intact. WT Cosgrave was more interested in saving money for the Free State than helping Northern nationalists. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the tripartite negotiations which began this day 100 years ago in London that left the border in Ireland intact. WT Cosgrave was more interested in saving money for the Free State than helping Northern nationalists. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Just got an advance copy of my third book published this year, this one co-written with Alan Tate, on the history of Lemon’s Pure Sweets. It looks stunning with over 200 great images and a story at the heart of Dublin life for decades. Great job by Merrion Press as always.
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just got an advance copy of my third book published this year, this one co-written with Alan Tate, on the history of Lemon’s Pure Sweets. It looks stunning with over 200 great images and a story at the heart of Dublin life for decades. Great job by Merrion Press as always.
As everyone is catching their breath from the thrills of yesterday, I am delighted to share that The Atlas of Irish Sport, (eds John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Charlie Roche and I) will be available from Sept 2026. Multiple brilliant contributions in the book.
www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205083...
www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205083...
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
As everyone is catching their breath from the thrills of yesterday, I am delighted to share that The Atlas of Irish Sport, (eds John Crowley, Mike Cronin, Charlie Roche and I) will be available from Sept 2026. Multiple brilliant contributions in the book.
www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205083...
www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205083...
Today’s Irish News article on the many blunders of Eoin MacNeill on the Irish Boundary Commission and his misleading of Free State government colleagues over the abysmal award for nationalists he consented to. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the many blunders of Eoin MacNeill on the Irish Boundary Commission and his misleading of Free State government colleagues over the abysmal award for nationalists he consented to. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
100 years ago, on 7 November 1925, the Morning Post newspaper published a forecast of the Irish Boundary Commission award. It led its collapse. To find out more about this extraordinary saga, you can pick up a copy of my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission.
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
100 years ago, on 7 November 1925, the Morning Post newspaper published a forecast of the Irish Boundary Commission award. It led its collapse. To find out more about this extraordinary saga, you can pick up a copy of my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission.
Today’s Irish News article on political unionism’s inability to move beyond the past as shown by Gavin Robinson’s disgraceful posting of the insignia of the Parachute Regiment last week, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Today’s Irish News article on political unionism’s inability to move beyond the past as shown by Gavin Robinson’s disgraceful posting of the insignia of the Parachute Regiment last week, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Today’s Irish News article on the proposed Boundary Commission Award mainly agreed upon this week 100 years ago. Would have seen parts of Donegal & Monaghan moved to NI, Crossmaglen moved to the Free State, but Newry with 75% Catholic pop. remaining in NI, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the proposed Boundary Commission Award mainly agreed upon this week 100 years ago. Would have seen parts of Donegal & Monaghan moved to NI, Crossmaglen moved to the Free State, but Newry with 75% Catholic pop. remaining in NI, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Today’s Irish News article on the fall of the Vanguards leader William Craig within unionism 50 years ago after his road to Damascus moment of supporting power-sharing with the SDLP. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the fall of the Vanguards leader William Craig within unionism 50 years ago after his road to Damascus moment of supporting power-sharing with the SDLP. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Despite the weather, great turnout for my Dublin Festival of History talk this morning in the historic Round Room of the Mansion House about the Irish Boundary Commission. Very engaging audience with some great questions.
September 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Despite the weather, great turnout for my Dublin Festival of History talk this morning in the historic Round Room of the Mansion House about the Irish Boundary Commission. Very engaging audience with some great questions.
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.
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
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...
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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...
Today’s Irish News article on the legacy of Éamon de Valera, 50 years after his death, www.irishnews.com/opinion/what...
August 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the legacy of Éamon de Valera, 50 years after his death, www.irishnews.com/opinion/what...
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.
August 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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.
Today’s article in the Irish News on the 250th anniversary of Daniel O’Connell’s birth, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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.
August 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.
Thanks to Matthew O’Toole for a very generous review of my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission in today’s Irish Times.
July 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Thanks to Matthew O’Toole for a very generous review of my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission in today’s Irish Times.
Today’s Irish News article on the Miami Showband Massacre fifty years on, www.irishnews.com/opinion/the-...
July 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the Miami Showband Massacre fifty years on, www.irishnews.com/opinion/the-...
Delighted to see The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission as the number one bestseller at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social today.
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Delighted to see The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission as the number one bestseller at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social today.
Today’s Irish News article on the Twelfth, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
July 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today’s Irish News article on the Twelfth, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Thanks to everyone who attended the launch for The Root of All Evil last night and made it such a special night. I want to particularly thank the Taoiseach Micheál Martin for doing me the honour of launching my book and for his gracious and insightful speech.
July 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thanks to everyone who attended the launch for The Root of All Evil last night and made it such a special night. I want to particularly thank the Taoiseach Micheál Martin for doing me the honour of launching my book and for his gracious and insightful speech.
Today’s Irish News article on the “forgotten famine” in Ireland in 1925, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
June 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the “forgotten famine” in Ireland in 1925, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Today’s Irish News article on the enduring friendship between Éamon de Valera and the “Sinn Féin rabbi”, Yitzhak Herzog who became the first chief rabbi of Israel. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
June 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the enduring friendship between Éamon de Valera and the “Sinn Féin rabbi”, Yitzhak Herzog who became the first chief rabbi of Israel. www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
Today’s Irish News article on the first Brexit vote fifty years ago, on 5 June 1975, that was mostly upside down compared to 2016 except for the border in Ireland being an afterthought on both occasions, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
May 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Today’s Irish News article on the first Brexit vote fifty years ago, on 5 June 1975, that was mostly upside down compared to 2016 except for the border in Ireland being an afterthought on both occasions, www.irishnews.com/opinion/corm...
I am delighted to announce that Tim McGarry will be launching my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission in No Alibis bookshop in Belfast on Wednesday, 28th May at 6pm. All welcome to come along.
May 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I am delighted to announce that Tim McGarry will be launching my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission in No Alibis bookshop in Belfast on Wednesday, 28th May at 6pm. All welcome to come along.