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A Grim Centenary
Today marks the centenary of the “official” outbreak of the Irish Civil War. Full-scale conflict had been threatening to erupt since the
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Belfast Republicans and the Treaty Split of 1922 – Part 1
Belfast IRA leaders Roger McCorley and Tom Fitzpatrick By Kieran Glennon Just as in the rest of Ireland, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in
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Staff Pick: Ireland
This month, Yale University Press London staff voted for their favourite book on the theme of ‘Ireland‘. Find out which books they
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Book Review: Birth of a State, The Anglo-Irish Treaty
By Liam Weeks and Micheál O Fathartaigh Published by Irish Academic Press, 2021 ISBN:9781788551595 Reviewer: John Dorney Readers in Ireland (and
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After The Treaty
On Friday I saw a bit of a programme on RTÉ One called Treaty Live which covered the events of January 7th 1922 in the form of a modern live news
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The Treaty Debates: December 14 1921- January 7 1922
Michael Collins signs the Treaty. By John Dorney In the Second Dáil, on January 7 1922, the parliament of the Irish Republic or the House of Commons
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9th Annual(?) Year in Review (100 Years Later)
By Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham We offer our 2 cents on the events of 1921, but let us know what you think of the biggest events of the year. It’s
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Treaties that Shaped the Course of Irish History
Michael Collins signs the Treaty. By John Dorney Today, December 6 2021, is 100 years since the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. The Treaty
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Book Review: Without a Dog’s Chance, The nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Boundary Commission 1920-25
By James Cousins, Published by Irish Academic Press, 2020 ISBN:9781788551021 Reviewer: John Dorney As the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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The Border Counties in the Irish War of Independence, 1918-21
An IRA unit at Ballybay, Co. Monaghan. By John Dorney The Irish War of Independence, the guerrilla conflict that raged from 1919-21, varied hugely in
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Michael Collins, Northern Ireland and the Northern Offensive, May 1922
A heavily armed IRA column in Donegal, 1922. Picture Irish News By Patrick Concannon As we enter the next few years of commemoration they
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‘Without Law or Justice’: Class conflict in the Irish border counties 1920-23.
A Dail Court in 1919. How social strife accompanied the Irish revolution in the north midlands region. By John Dorney. At a meeting of evicted