Front Page Blog – Denis Casey

Kerry and the Spanish Civil War (2)

Picture of Robert Hilliard (from the Kerryman newspaper)

My article “Reverend Robert Hilliard: the Kerry clergyman who died fighting for the Spanish Republic” was published in The Kerryman (14th January 2026)

Kerry and the Spanish Civil War (1)

My article “Remembering and forgetting the Kerry dead of the Spanish Civil War” was published in The Kerryman (8th November 2025).

Denis Casey

I am a writer, historian and university educator, from Co. Kerry, Ireland, with a passion for exploring links between Ireland and Spain.

Portmagee, Co. Kerry: the origins of an Atlantic smuggling village

My latest book – a history of the village of Portmagee, Co. Kerry from the Bronze Age to modern times – is now available to buy from Four Courts Press (2023).

Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

A study of the meeting of one of medieval Ireland’s most powerful kings and its most famous book. (Maynooth Studies in Local History, Four Courts Press, 2020).